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reply accordingly vs reply according

'Reply accordingly' is used when you want someone to respond in a manner that is appropriate to the situation or information provided. 'Reply according' is less common and may sound incomplete or awkward in most contexts without more words added to the phrase.
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reply accordingly

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to instruct someone to respond in a manner that is appropriate to the situation or information provided.

Examples:

  • Please review the document and reply accordingly.
  • If you have any questions, please reply accordingly.
  • He was given specific instructions to reply accordingly.
  • The email contained important details, so she needed to reply accordingly.
  • The teacher asked the students to reply accordingly to the question.
  • Oct 12, 2021 ... ... reply accordingly, but I'm unsure if my words hold any truth. Full ... r/antiwork - I'm quite annoyed and want ...
  • Oct 14, 2019 ... I have disabled ICMP reply in all WAN as well. All these didn't work as I could still ping ip address of the LLB and it reply accordingly. Has ...
  • Jun 2, 2023 ... How could HA recognize who is speaking and reply accordingly, with personalization? For instance, 'turn on my lights', 'what's in my ...
  • Jun 19, 2024 ... Please read Getting good answers to your questions and reply accordingly and draft future posts with that as a guideline. Chitranshu0 June ...
  • Nov 9, 2024 ... My character ai doesn't reply accordingly to my chats anymore. Bug. Ive been using this app for 2 weeks and more i think. there is one with a ...
  • Apr 27, 2017 ... ... reply accordingly? It should work like an enhanced chat bot. I have googled but came across nothing. Any platform/technology will work ...
  • Nov 21, 2015 ... Thanks for the help katie, i will go through this document and reply accordingly. Up 0 True Down. ANUP Sharma41. 0 ANUP Sharma41 over 9 years ...
  • Oct 26, 2023 ... Will try some of the suggestions mentioned and edit my reply accordingly. Seeing the issue on Desktop app and in browser (Chrome). Running ...
  • Oct 16, 2015 ... If you need more info, please let me know and I'll reply accordingly. I'm on space gray sport running WatchOS 2. Show more Less. Apple Watch ...
  • May 28, 2019 ... I have also sent you a DM for case details, please check and reply accordingly. Regards,. Srishti. Votes. 0 Upvote. Translate.

Alternatives:

  • respond appropriately
  • answer accordingly
  • react accordingly
  • reply in a manner that fits the situation
  • reply as appropriate

reply according

This phrase is correct but less common in English.

This phrase can be used in a sentence like 'Please reply according to the instructions given.' It may sound less natural compared to 'reply accordingly.'

Examples:

  • Please reply according to the guidelines provided.
  • He was asked to reply according to the email instructions.
  • The students were expected to reply according to the question asked.
  • She replied according to the information she received.
  • The team members were required to reply according to the protocol.
  • Jan 25, 2021 ... auto reply according to incoming message? hello everyone! i have a problem in figuring out ways to trigger an auto response to an incoming ...
  • May 29, 2018 ... ... reply according to user id.This is entity I have created ... How to do that, how to retieve email Id from there and store their reply according to ...
  • Jun 8, 2020 ... thanks for the quick reply. According to your info, the max SPI CLK with a PCLKA@120MHz is 10 Mhz? I tried 9,216Mhz and 6,144Mhz. both ...
  • Oct 31, 2013 ... Reply: According to the widely accepted concept of Grosh [1], friction of elastomers is due to energy dis- sipation in the volume of the ...
  • Dec 4, 2019 ... Thank you for your reply. According to what you say, your mean is that if i want to read the address of 9548A by i2cdetect , i need to write to ...
  • Nov 13, 2022 ... I think it's a very helpful addition! I would further refine the auto reply - according to different gigs (if possible). Like ...
  • Thank you for the reply. According to the guide, I should be able to write the command "ids dos-profile ... JOB CACKAOct 05, 2017 01:26 PM. I found ...
  • If the interface is an Ethernet interface other than the receiving interface, the device returns a reply according to the ARP snooping entry. If no match is ...
  • Aug 16, 2023 ... Thanks Reply! According to your reply, I disabled the CLB synchronization, and the delay will indeed be reduced, but there will still be a 10ns ...
  • Dec 28, 2021 ... Hello Jesse, Thanks for your reply! According to your advice I check my data,and I find my data is complete. And I try to reduce nyrs=1 in ...

Alternatives:

  • respond as instructed
  • answer as directed
  • react as per the guidelines
  • reply based on the information
  • reply following the instructions

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