Anonymous  +  196681 Tue, 14 Feb 06 12:48 PM Hi, Can you clarify my confusion regarding the usage of the phrases, "as follows" and "as follow"? Anonymous

	Best answer by Tanit  +  630148 Sun, 04 Jan 09 01:32 PM Anonymous “Response is: they are as follow that is as follows ” I don't think so. Please have a look at the posts above yours in this thread and at the following usage note from The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Whether the preceding matter is plural or not, as follows is always singular: The reasons for these decisions are as follows. To use as follow instead is sufficiently precious sounding to make your reader break stride: don’t do it. You can use the following instead, 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. ” Tanit

	nona the brit  +  196732 Tue, 14 Feb 06 03:33 PM Hello, it has to be as follows. nona the brit Joined on Wed, Sep 22 2004 England Veteran Member 11,743 The name says it all.

	MrPedantic  +  197692 Fri, 17 Feb 06 12:55 AM Hello Anon To my mind, the "as follows" doesn't relate to the content of the following text, but the text itself as a whole, i.e. 1. The two explanations you requested are as (in the text that) follows... So I would call "as follow" incorrect. But other posters may have other opinions! MrP MrPedantic Joined on Tue, Oct 12 2004 Veteran Member 13,616 ...opella forensis / adducit febris...