as follows
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1.0
- idiom
- Formal
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como sigue
- The rules of the game are as follows:
- summarized as follows
- reads as follows
- described as follows
Their outlook is as follows, positive year for stocks, negative year for bonds.
- Their outlook is as follows, positive year for stocks, negative year for bonds.
- The first part can be summed up as follows.
- And the idea then about our headset is as follows.
Examples
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So our demands are as follows.
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The rules are as follows:
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The names of the 11 members are as follows:
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A news release read as follows:
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And the results were as follows.
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Their names are as follows:
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House rules are as follows.
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The nominees for Pirate of the Year are as follows:
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The demographics of the participants were as follows: 84.7% European American, 3.1%
Academic text (1999) -
The rules of the game are as follows: players take turns rolling the dice.
Synonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
as + follow
The phrase combines 'as' (marking manner/relationship) with 'follow(s)' (to come after), so its meaning 'in the way that comes next / the following are' is directly derivable from the constituents. This is a conventional, compositional introductory formula commonly used to present a list or explanation and is predictable for B1 learners who know the component words.
Etymology
The phrase as follows comes from the simple image of something that follows, meaning 'comes next'. Imagine a speaker saying the words and then the list or steps that follow, so as follows is used to introduce the explanation or items that come next.