precede/proceed
What is the difference between precede and proceed ?
Precede means “to go or come before.” Use proceed for other meanings.
- Emily Dickinson’s poetry precedes that of Alice Walker.
- You may proceed to the next section of the test.
Extra Examples:
- An adverb may precede the verb.
- A great analysis was to precede a great synthesis, but it was the synthesis on which Comte's vision was centred from the first.
- A moral transformation must precede any real advance.
- Thus, too, each science rests on the truths of the sciences that precede it, while it adds to them the truths by which it is itself constituted.
- Adjectives normally precede the noun they are modifying.
- You may now proceed through the checkout.
- Proceed with caution, as always.
- You need to proceed at a considerably slower pace.
- Are you saying you want to proceed like we did yesterday?
- The next step was informing Mr. Cooms of our willingness to proceed with his offer.