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How to use antecedent in a sentence

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If the antecedent is more true than the consequent, then the conditional is less than the maximal truth by the difference between their values.
The true antecedent of the modern vanishing point is Guidobaldo's punctum concursus.
The specific action is seen as a required consequent of some antecedent formed by a conjunctive chain.
A non-restrictive clause is one that does not serve to identify or define the antecedent noun.
Behaviors are directed by the antecedent stimuli that preceded them and announce the availability of a positive or negative consequence.
Or is she suffering from what German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin called dementia praecox, the antecedent of today's schizophrenia?
Can you have a pronoun in the main clause coming earlier than an antecedent in a subordinate clause?
And much will depend, in this case, on all of the conditions antecedent to the initiation of combat.
Hawthorne's text is studiously inscrutable about events antecedent to Hester's being branded adulteress.
A good reputation acts as an antecedent for both employee and customer attitudes.
But I didn't put them prominently in the article because I was trying to address an antecedent point about how we think about them.
Obedience to a hypothetical imperative is always obedience to the condition expressed in its antecedent.
My students make mistakes with matching the pronoun and the antecedent all the time.
Our psychology must therefore take account not only of the conditions antecedent to mental states, but of their resultant consequences as well.
Secondly, the relative pronoun has an antecedent in the poem, albeit divided from it by a colon.
Finally, both the antecedent of PRO and PRO itself have to be an argument and cannot be an expletive.
But this gives us a true antecedent and a false consequent, and so the consequence does not hold.
In technical terms the Colorado River is antecedent to the Edwards Plateau and consequent to the Coastal Plain.
But every complete sentence can be used without expressing a judgement, for instance as the antecedent or consequent of a conditional.
Hume defends the necessitarian point of view by arguing that all human actions are caused by antecedent motives.
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The case of a relative pronoun has nothing to do with its antecedent, but depends on the construction of its own clause.
It is a common experience in women that the signs of varix date from an antecedent pregnancy.
This was an obligement never to be forgotten, and the more to be considered because antecedent to her love.
The antecedent of this pronoun had been mentioned for the last time at eight o'clock.
His scientists, his historians were all of the Victorian age or antecedent thereto.
As the antecedent of the modern American electric blanket, they enticed the drowsy to bed.
The article is also used as antecedent to relatives, EO e b 19, a e b 39, they who.
The relative pronoun should come, as a rule, immediately after its antecedent.
A relative pronoun must agree with its antecedent in gender, number, and person.
What is it that binds the consequent to its antecedent in nature?
The antecedent thereby is reposited and resignified via subsequent usages and references.
If magnetism be an antecedent factor, magnetism may be its product.
The antecedent in this instance is not Rubicon, but the entire clause.
These contain an internal evidence which, antecedent to all reflection or combination, commands the assent of the mind.
Without any antecedent knowledge, without any warning whatever that such existed, he found himself an explorer in a totally new world.
Have the subsequently introduced species consumed the food of the great antecedent races?
It is not brought about by the presence of antecedent realities.
This appears to be the antecedent of the modern country club.
The relative clause confines or restricts the meaning of the antecedent.
No, its head spring, in this case, was antecedent to the lake.
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