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You can use the following instead (e.g. "You must do the following: blah blah blah"), but you needn’t. Less stiff would be "You must do the following: blah blah blah"), but you needn’t. Less stiff would be The reasons for these decisions are these , or Here are my reasons , or My reasons are, first,…, and the like.
Jun 27, 2016 · You can but it is better to say, In the following [add subject, for example: questions, topic, animals, picture, etc...) we will outline how this can be done. So it will become something like: In the following questions, we will outline how this can be done.
Aug 16, 2016 · They're not just any examples, they're specifically the following examples, as opposed to the best examples or the examples of history or the examples I found in my sock drawer. Whether something has been mentioned before is a good rule of thumb, but it is not the only rule for when you should use the definite article.
Jan 19, 2017 · I looked up the dictionary, Merriam Unabridged, and it is the following. — the following: the following one or ones — used to introduce a list, a quotation, etc. <The following are some other symptoms of the condition: excessive sweating, fever, muscle aches … — Fred Cicetti, The Montague (Massachusetts) Reporter, 15 Oct. 2009>
May 30, 2021 · Following this paragraph is a photograph of a carnivorous animal. Your example probably works better with "the following", as in. The following is an example of a carnivorous animal. which might be followed by a suitable photograph. The first form can be taken as a re-ordering of. A photograph of a carnivorous animal follows (is following) this ...
Jan 8, 2018 · I have seen both expressions online. I don't think "which of the following statement" is grammatically correct but I'm not a native speaker so I'm not sure. Which one of them is more reliably correct?
In the first sentence, the following is used as a noun. EDIT: However, the most accepted use of below is as an adverb. (Up until today, I thought that it could function as an adjective, please see the comments below). So in order for the second sentence to be grammatically correct, you would need to say, Which of the sentences below is correct?
Feb 2, 2019 · I would like to know if I should use following or according to when referring to some guidelines, such as in the following example: Stunting was diagnosed when a patient’s height was smaller than 1.40m, for men, or 1.30m, for women. These cut-off points were defined following / according to World Health Organization guidelines on anthropometry.
Aug 21, 2013 · “Page 42 and the following pages” sounds correct. This could be shortened to “page 42 and following pages” (since you aren't specifying the exact number of following pages, it's some following pages, so the null article works), or perhaps even to “page 42 and following” (without the, it doesn't look like a noun is missing any more).
Mar 22, 2015 · The Monday of the week following the following week. As an aside, I'm not even sure if the fact that this would work one way rather than another is a matter of which language is spoken (e.g. English), or whether the same reasoning as would be given by answers on this group would apply to other languages as well (as a matter of pure logic).
