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After checking vs After checked

The gerund is the correct verbal form in this participial phrase, so "after checking" is correct.
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Last updated: December 10, 2017 • 76058 views

After checking

This phrase is correct.

This is a participial phrase that may be used at the beginning of a sentence. This is a common construction:

"After going to the store, I came home."
"After helping my father, I helped my mother."

You could also use the construction at the end of a sentence, but you wouldn't use a comma to separate it from the rest of the sentence, i.e.:

"I went to the store after finding my wallet."
"I talked to my mother after talking to my father."

Some examples from our editors:

  • After checking that she had locked the door, she left the house.
  • After checking that the children were asleep, she retired to the bedroom.
  • After checking his schedule, he agreed to preside at the meeting.
  • After checking up the good, pay as usual.
  • After checking the accident, it fled.
  • After checking my schedule, I find I'll be able to make the journey.
  • In this context, an enterprise death is defined as an enterprise that was previously active but has not been present among the active enterprises for at least two years (after checking for any reactivations).
  • After checking all their identification They entered.
  • I knew that any former model worth her salt would've been there, and of course, after checking flight records, you were in Paris.
  • After checking that all the requirements for the grant of the aid have been met, the Member State where the olives were harvested shall pay the production aid.
  • After checking the offer, and on the fifth working day following the day of receipt of the offer to sell, the competent body shall issue a delivery order, provided that the Commission does not adopt special measures in accordance with Article 12(2).
  • After checking the offer, and within five working days following the day of receipt of the offer to sell, the competent body shall issue a dated and numbered delivery order showing:
  • After checking the amended programmes the Commission shall decide, no later than 30 November, which programmes it may part-finance in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 12(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2202/1999.
  • After checking the offer, and within five working days following the day of receipt, the intervention agency shall issue a dated and numbered delivery order showing:
  • Class B eggs imported from third countries shall be released for free circulation only after checking at the time of customs clearance that their final destination is the processing industry.
  • The competent body of the Member State shall pay the amount due between 16 and 31 October, after checking the application against, in particular, the delivery certificates referred to in Article 11.
  • 3. The competent authorities of the Member State shall pay the amount due between 16 and 31 October, after checking the application against, in particular, the delivery certificates referred to in Article 20.
  • Open the lid of the reaction chamber after checking that the chamber is empty.
  • At first, I thought it was something I'd done, but after checking the controls, I realized it wasn't me.
  • The company that makes Soliris will agree the details of a system in each Member State that will ensure that distribution of the medicine only occurs after checking that the patient has been vaccinated appropriately.
  • In this context, an enterprise death is defined as an enterprise that was previously active but has not been present among the active enterprises for at least two years (after checking for any reactivations).
  • After checking the accident, it fled.
  • After checking in, I'll call you from the hotel Business Centre.

Some alternatives from our editors:

  • after confirming
  • after verifying

After checked

This phrase is not correct. Don't use it.

You need to use the gerund ("ing") verbal form in this participial phrase.
  • He must have been shot right after he checked in.
  • I found it in the room after they checked out.
  • Didn't see him at all after he checked in.
  • After he checked out of his hotel.
  • When Will hurt me, after I checked out of the hospital, I never went back.
  • Okay, after you checked yourself out of rehab, You got in the car.
  • I said you could go look for your son after you checked out the armory.
  • It's not like I had many after I checked out of cell block H.
  • After he checked in, Mr. Eli didn't use his key card at all.
  • So after I checked on the first two vehicles, I run back towards our vehicle, and... I could see Chance was shooting all over the place.
  • After I checked your credit card statements, I went back and talked to the bartenders.
  • Here's a letter O'Rourke wrote and these are my notes after I checked him out.
  • You know, I don't really remember much after we checked in.
  • I know I was supposed to give this back to you after I checked your license, but I couldn't help myself.
  • after having checked that the appropriations are available
  • Slaughterers affix the indelible stamp on fresh hind legs of pigs delivered with the certificates referred to above after having checked compliance with the legal requirements.
  • The competent authorities of the Community will accept them after having checked that the products concerned have fulfilled the conditions established in this Annex.
  • The Court, after having checked the details, approved the restructuring programme.
  • Just started working the ICU in the last 24 hours, right after Ash Murphy checked in.
  • After we've checked the Orthodox synagogues.

Some alternatives from our editors:

  • after checking

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