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In the contract it says Thus, the parties agree as follows. Does this makes sense? In google search it seems i makes sense

But I thought that since parties is a plural, the sentence should be parties agree as follow?

eg. Balls bounce vs ball bounces

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    The verb that agrees with the plural parties is agree, no problem there. As follows refers to the next part of the text, an could be replaced by the following.
    – oerkelens
    Commented Jun 22, 2017 at 8:24

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"As follows " is used when you are going to give more details about something. It's always singular.

The winners were as follows – Ratha, Pen, Wiliam.

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