antecedent

10 letters in word "antecedent": A C D E E E N N T T.

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• Definitions:
• The word to which a pronoun refers. In the sentence "Arun is unhappy because he lost his leather jacket," "Arun" is the ...
• the word or phrase to which a later word or phrase (eg an anaphor) refers.
• In expert systems, the IF part of an IF–THEN rule. See also consequent.
• That which proceeds.
• A stimulus (ie a verbal cue, activity, event or person) that immediately precedes a behavior. This stimulus may or may not serve as discriminative for a specific behavior.
• The initial (or "if") part of a fuzzy rule.
• A preceding event or cause, or an ancestor.
• A stimulus or event which precedes a behavior.
• The first part (if clause) of a conditional statement (Lesson 14.8).
• a word or phrase that restates or modifies an immediately preceding noun (eg, In My son Jake is 12 years old the appositive is Jake.)
• ancestor: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) a preceding occurrence or cause or event anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience" preceding in time or order the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
• Antecedents are the life history and previous convictions of a defendant in a criminal case.
• An antecedent is the first half of a hypothetical proposition.
• In grammar, an antecedent is generally the noun or noun phrase to which an anaphor refers in a coreference, however an antecedent also can be a clause, especially when the anaphor is a demonstrative. ...

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