A proposal is antecedent to a wedding. From LearnThat.org.
Phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
From what words is the term antecedent derived?. From Wordnik.com. [English Grammar in Familiar Lectures] Reference
The double letters indicate that the antecedent is plural. From Wordnik.com. [Abbreviation Question] Reference
Howard's most obvious antecedent is my older brother Hank, who was profoundly autistic throughout his life. From Wordnik.com. [What Is The Ha-Ha? by Dave King] Reference
Cosby’s most obvious antecedent is Booker T. Washington. From Wordnik.com. [‘This Is How We Lost to the White Man’] Reference
˜John™ is called the antecedent of the anaphoric expression. From Wordnik.com. [Anaphora] Reference
The one is called antecedent, and the other subsequent detachment. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Blessed Henry Suso by Himself.] Reference
The antecedent is a noun or pronoun before the relative to which it relates. From Wordnik.com. [First book in composition, applying the principles of grammar to the art of composing : also, giving full directions for punctuation : especially designed for the use of southern schools,] Reference
The band that should call the antecedent of this band as a well-known fact might be. From Wordnik.com. [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference
No, the antecedent was the reporter's question, not Keller's statement -jj But, it seemed, he was directing the charge at us. From Wordnik.com. [No bullshit here « BuzzMachine] Reference
Along with any number of stationary antecedents, which are collocations, there must be at least one changing antecedent, which is. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
Your antecedent is a bit off: it refers to the journal and can't also refer to a group of people, poetic license notwithstanding. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1] Reference
These are entailments that turn out to be valid in classical and modal logic, just because the antecedent is a (necessary) falsity. From Wordnik.com. [Impossible Worlds] Reference
I believe that something IS changing over time, though, namely the kind of antecedent associated with singular they. From Wordnik.com. [Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar] Reference
Of course the antecedent is MSU. From Wordnik.com. [Burns the liberal] Reference
She might have said "antecedent;" this is a modified ABA classroom, after all. From Wordnik.com. [Autism Hub] Reference
Proteus leads Menelaus to the Greek Gods, and becomes himself a kind of antecedent Hellenic deity. From Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
Let me add, that the antecedent which is only conditionally invariable, is not the invariable antecedent. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
A is called the antecedent, C the consequent. From Wordnik.com. [Conditionals] Reference
So, my antecedent as a politician has never been doubt. From Wordnik.com. [Babangida Campaign Chief Accuses Nigerian President's Supporters of Threats] Reference
The adjective clause modifies the omitted antecedent of. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
The implied antecedent is the American population, all of us. From Wordnik.com. [Came The Revolution...] Reference
This appears to be the antecedent of the modern country club. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
It is not brought about by the presence of antecedent realities. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
A few months antecedent to this event, a circumstance occurred to. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
A pronoun agrees with its antecedent in person, number, and gender. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
The antecedent of the present-day coat worn by men was introduced in. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
Is it an event consequent on the presence of real antecedent objects?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
In terms of sheer audacity, Nirvana had a clear antecedent in the Germs. From Wordnik.com. [Germ Warfare] Reference
There were no books, no school house, no antecedent knowledge of what was needed. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Avoid changing the gender of the pronoun when referring to the same antecedent. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
+Agreement+ of parts of a metaphor of pronoun with its antecedent of verb with the subject. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
As the antecedent of the modern American electric blanket, they enticed the drowsy to bed. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
Several connected relative clauses relating to the same antecedent require the same relative pronoun. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
That argument might sound appealing, but, in fact, it is a logical fallacy (philosophers call this one "denying the antecedent"). From Wordnik.com. [Wrong Paul] Reference
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