What Is Normally Below You?
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People are saying, “Please read the below information and send your reservation,” etc. Sure enough, a quick Web cruise provides numerous (international) examples of the phrases “below information” and “below form” from sites run by universities, health services, local governments, and newspapers:
Is the word below an adjective or an adverb?
Merriam-Webster muddies the waters in the entry for below as an adverb by placing the word adjective in parenthesis beside the word adverb: be·low adverb (or adjective ). Paul Brians ( Common Errors in English Usage) regards the below + noun usage as an oddity:
When to use above or below in a text?
When calling your readers’ attention to an illustration or table further on in a text, the proper word order is not “the below table” but “the table below.” Although it is common to see above placed before a noun in this way, doing it with below sounds very strange to most speakers of standard English.
What do you mean by ” what am I “?
I am the type of room you can not enter or leave. Raise from the ground below. I could be poisonous or a delicious treat. What am I? The more you take of me, the more you leave behind. What am I? I go up and never come down no matter how hard you wish. As I get higher, more wrinkles crawl on to the face. What am I? I can be long or short.