Dear Ms Funny
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Do you add 's' at the end of the 'follow'? Or do not add 's' at the end of the 'follow'? Before you know which one is correct, there is a question for you. What is it? What is ‘as’ in 'as follows'? Or, what does ‘as’ mean here?
(There are) two options for you to choose.
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Option / Meaning (1)
Read the sentence: He is as cool as Johnny Depp. So what does ‘as’ mean? It means he is like Johnny Depp.
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Option / Meaning (2)
But what about the ‘as’ in the following situation, your presentation:
As you all know, our company is becoming bigger and bigger. (I guess you will say so even if your company is getting smaller and smaller.)
What does ‘as’ mean here? Not sure about it? Put differently, why do you say ‘As you all know ’?
What does ‘as’ mean here? Not sure about it? Put differently, why do you say ‘As you all know ’?
Is it a comment? A comment about which you think everyone knows that your company is getting bigger and bigger, that the information is shared by everyone in the room, right?
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So now back to the email, ‘as follows’. Which meaning, one or two, is similar to ‘as follows’? I guess you’ve got it. The ‘as’ in ‘as follows’ is very much like ‘as cool as’, right? In other words, the ‘as’ in ‘as follows’ means:
like
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Well, now you know what ‘as’ means, but why there is ‘s’ in ‘follows’? There are two explanations.
Explanation 1: There is a ‘what’? What does that mean? Read the following email:
You may insert ‘what’ before ‘follows’.
Explanation 2: Yet, there is more than one explanation. Read the following email.
You may insert ‘it’ before ‘follows’. Well problem solved, right? There is still a Feel Good tip for you, but this time you have to work it out yourselves. Before you feel surprised, if not disappointed, break the code:
As + follows
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