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After means ‘later than’ and ‘next in time or place’. …. After or afterwards as an adverb. We can use after as an adverb, but afterwards is more common. When after is used, it is usually as part of an adverb phrase: …. After: typical error.
Can you outdo past winners of the National Spelli... Take the quiz. The meaning of AFTERWARD is at a later or succeeding time : subsequently, thereafter. How to use afterward in a sentence.
If you do something or if something happens afterwards, you do it or it happens after a particular event or time that has already been mentioned. Shortly afterwards, police arrested four suspects. James was taken to hospital but died soon afterwards.
adverb [ not gradable ] us / ˈæf·tər·wərd / (also afterwards, us / ˈæf·tər·wərdz /) Add to word list. after the time mentioned; later: We had a swim and afterward we lay on the beach for a while.
/ˈɑːftəwədz/ /ˈæftərwərdz/ (especially British English) ( North American English usually afterward) at a later time; after an event that has already been mentioned. Afterwards she was sorry for what she'd said. Let's go out now and eat afterwards. Shortly afterwards he met her again.
Afterwards definition: after an earlier event or time; subsequently. See examples of AFTERWARDS used in a sentence.
We can use after as an adverb, but afterwards is more common. When after is used, it is usually as part of an adverb phrase: They lived happily ever after. (means ‘for ever’) She had an operation on her leg and afterwards was unable to walk for at least a month.
