| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | English term or phrase: | followings | | Chinese translation: | It should be "following". | | Entered by: |   ysun |
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Medical - Medical: Pharmaceuticals | | English term or phrase: followings | | 请问"following" 与"followings"的区别，如：Please record the following 和 Please record the followings有何区别？ |
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| | It should be "following" | Explanation:
The correct sentence should be “Please record the following”.
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Note added at 47 mins (2009-09-07 03:49:50 GMT)
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Please see http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/following_2
2 the following - the people or things that you are going to mention:
The following have been selected to play in tomorrow's game: Louise Carus, Fiona Douglas...
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Note added at 13 hrs (2009-09-07 16:56:09 GMT)
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In other words, "Please record the followings" is incorrect. Please see some discussions about followings/following:
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=865095
Re: followings or following
"The following" and "as (here) follows" are fixed elliptical phrases meaning "the thing or things that I am about to mention" or "what follows this sentence or phrase".
Following here is a participle, a verb form normally used to modify a noun, but the noun is not expressed when "the following" ends the phrase. Like an adjective, "following" does not change form for plural, so you could say "the following item" (singular) or "the following items" (plural), or in place of either, "the following", referring to the item or items that follow the current phrase.
http://www.englishforums.com/English/FollowingOrFollowings/c...
http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/8384-following...
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