English UsageGrammar guide
Comply With: Standard Pattern
Comply With: Standard Pattern records the directly documented Cambridge construction and keeps the guidance bounded to the evidenced complement pattern rather than inventing a broader prohibition.
Cambridge documents “comply with” when someone or something acts according to a rule, instruction, request, or agreement.
Key details
Confusion Familyusage-construction
Rule Familyverb-preposition construction
Termscomply with
Further guidance
Construction
Cambridge documents comply with for acting according to a rule, law, instruction, order, request, or agreement.
Style Boundary
This page records the supported comply-with construction without claiming that comply must always carry an explicit complement.
Sources and evidence
Sources are shown with the role they play in this guide. Historical or style-sensitive claims are kept within the evidence boundary described above.
- comply — Cambridge Dictionary (opens in a new tab)Cambridge University Press · Cambridge dictionary evidence for the verb construction comply with something.