AccordingIt is one of the many prepositions that the Spanish language has and therefore and as such its main function is to introduce obligatory attachments and complements, linking the name that immediately precedes them with a verb or another name that precedes them, that is, , joins words and relates them to each other.
For example, when the preposition as precedes names or personal pronouns means according to what those people in question and who are named think or think, more specifically, this situation is found in the reading of the Gospels. Every time some of the four Gospels of the New Testament are read at a mass or some other ceremony, it is customary to say at the end, when they have finished reading them in full or a paragraph, according to Saint Mateos or According to Saint Luke, to give an account to the concurrent or faithful of the religious act who is responsible for such words and to which of the four saints the text to be read belongs.
Meanwhile, when the word of God has nothing to do with it, it is also used in the same way when we make a difference to something someone said and we want everyone to know the source from which what is being said was taken, use the preposition as followed of the proper name of the person who made the statements to highlight to realize that we are not saying it or that it is not our opinion but that of another person.
Although, also, as it can act in a phrase, sentence or comment as an adverb, when you want to account for the progressiveness of a situation. For example, we were given the final exam grades, according to the order of arrival.
