Sentence examples for the antecedent from inspiring English sources
noun
Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
Reagan is the antecedent Palin would prefer.
The antecedent of the Bill of Mortality does not exist.
But what was the antecedent — what was the "it"?
The antecedent of the plow is the prehistoric digging stick.
The Yip Harburg rule of agreement: if you're not near the antecedent you love, you use the antecedent you're near. 5.
As with all conditional claims, if the antecedent is false, then the entire claim is invalidated.
Yet the antecedent they themselves claim puts the gesture in a different light.
Ken Paul e-mails: "The antecedent of who is 'the few,' and thus the verb should be have".
With the pronoun first, the antecedent of "she" could be another woman.
"The antecedent to PTSD is fear, horror and helplessness," Dr. Davidson said.
The antecedent to the pronoun is someone, and the pronoun is, of course, they.
