2023-10-07 07:02:37
“As agreed, our meeting will take place tomorrow at noon. » This seems to have been agreed in advance: a meeting was agreede the next day, right? Well, no, not at all. This logical error is forgivable, because it is intuitive, but to no longer make it, we just need to look at the true meaning of the phrase that concerns us.
The only question to ask: what was agreed?
In the expression “as agreed”, it is not the thing that has been agreed that we are talking about, but the fact of agreeing in itself. So in the example above, what is meant is not “a meeting has been agreed”, but “it has been agreed to hold a meeting” or “we have agreed to hold a meeting”. In either case, this past participle of the verb to agree is satisfied with a “u”.
How to stop making the mistake?
Regardless of the context, “as agreed” can always be replaced with “as agreed” or “as we agreed.” Proof by example:
“As agreed, we postponed our vacation. » = “As agreed, we have postponed our vacation. »“I will arrive tomorrow morning as agreed. » = “I will arrive tomorrow morning, as we agreed. »
Easy, isn’t it?
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