Phrase · B2 · Neutral · common in professional and everyday English
follow up
Investigate something further or take another action connected with an earlier message, event, or lead.
proveriti dalje; preduzeti naredni korak; naknadno se javiti
Memory scene
The first action leaves a bright trail; you follow it one step farther instead of letting it end.
How it sounds
FAH-loh up (US)
As a verb, follow and up receive separate stress; the noun and adjective are hyphenated: a FOLLOW-up call.
Build the sentence
follow something up · follow up on something · follow up with someone · follow up with an action
Use it
I emailed the landlord on Monday and followed up with a phone call today.
With introduces the later action used to continue the matter.
The investigator promised to follow the complaint up immediately.
This separable pattern places a full noun between follow and up.
Watch out
The verb is follow up, without a hyphen; follow-up is a noun or adjective. In follow something up, put a pronoun in the middle: follow it up. US English also commonly uses follow up on something.
Nearby language
Often asks whether a person or situation is all right; follow up emphasizes connected further action or investigation.
More formal and may suggest sustained effort rather than one next step.
Means complete what you promised or started, not investigate or reconnect after an earlier event.
Make it yours
Poslali ste prijavu pre nedelju dana i sada želite da pozovete kako biste proverili šta se dešava.