antecedent

Examples

• All

• In order to prevent bullying and harassment at work, the antecedents and the culture of an organization need to be understood.

  Academic text (2014)

• It says he and it, and it's unclear when the closest antecedent is Judas.

• Does it surprise you to hear that the story has no written antecedent?

  Fiction book (2002)

• Further, direct observations indicated that the request to complete an independent mathematics assignment was a frequent antecedent.

  Academic text (2014)

• If the child responds incorrectly, for example, with "dog," or does not respond to the antecedent, the clinician might say, "Cat."

  Academic text (2014)

• The clinician gains the child's attention and then presents the child with a picture of a cat and says, "What's that?" (antecedent).

  Academic text (2014)

• When determining whether one is consistently using clear instruction, a video review may be helpful; if the antecedent is unclear to the clinician, then the behavior expectation was unclear to the child.

  Academic text (2014)

• In this model, spoken language is viewed as a learned behavior; thus, principles of behavior (antecedent, behavior, consequence, reinforcement, motivation) can be used to teach language.

  Academic text (2014)

• This implies that children need to learn that both definite determiners and definite pronouns require discourse antecedents.

  Academic text (2012)

• In the sentence "She loves her dog, but he is lazy," the antecedent of the pronoun he is dog.

Compounds

P

plasma thromboplastin antecedent

• Specialized

9.9

A protein in blood that helps it to clot and whose lack causes heavy bleeding

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Etymology