ensues
USin-SOOZ/ɪnˈsuːz/UKin-SYOOZ/ɪnˈsjuːz/AUSen-SYOOZ/enˈsjʉːz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of ensue.
A long silence ensues whenever he raises the subject.
Once the verdict is read aloud, an appeal often ensues.
Note
A present-tense form that never takes an object in modern English: a silence ensues, an appeal ensues, but nothing ensues something. Older English let the verb govern an object, so a follower could ensue a leader, or one event could ensue another. Both uses are now obsolete. Today it reports a consequence, so its subject is the result itself, and the cause usually sits in a clause beside it.
ensues is a form of ensue
ensue, verb: To occur afterward as a result or effect of something that came before. Full entry
- Spelling
- ensue → ensues: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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