adjective · academic
subsequent
/ˈsʌbsɪkwənt/SUB·se·quent
Band 7+task2speaking
Happening after something else in time
Examples
“Subsequent studies have produced similar results.”
“In subsequent years the town expanded rapidly.”
“The initial trial was successful; subsequent trials confirmed the findings.”
Band 8 sentence
“Subsequent experiments confirmed the initial findings, strengthening the study's claims.”
Collocations
- subsequent years
- subsequent studies
- subsequent to
Word family
subsequent adjectivesubsequently adverb
Common mistakes
in subsequently years→in subsequent years
subsequent to that, we will start→subsequent to that, we will start
Say it for a higher band
5then→6later→7+subsequent
Synonyms
later
Easily confused
later
“Subsequent interviews revealed further discrepancies in the report.”
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