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2. Antecedent (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   The ante-in antecedent means 'before; in front of'. Thus, when a pro-form precedes its antecedent, the antecedent is not literally an antecedent, but rather it is a postcedent, post-meaning 'after; behind'. The following examples, wherein the pro-forms are bolded and their postcedents are underlined, illustrate this distinction:

3. Possessive antecedent - Wikipedia

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   In English grammar, a pronoun has a possessive antecedent if its antecedent (the noun that it refers to) appears in the possessive case; for example, in the following sentence, Winston Churchill is a possessive antecedent, serving as it does as the antecedent for the pronoun him: Winston Churchill's history shows him to have been a good writer.

4. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...

5. Relative pronoun - Wikipedia

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   The element in the main clause that the relative pronoun in the relative clause stands for (house in the above example) is the antecedent of that pronoun.In most cases the antecedent is a nominal (noun or noun phrase), though the pronoun can also refer to a whole proposition, as in "The train was late, which annoyed me greatly", where the antecedent of the relative pronoun which is the clause ...

6. Antecedent (logic) - Wikipedia

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   Antecedent and consequent are connected via logical connective to form a proposition. If is a man, then is mortal. " is a man" is the antecedent for this proposition while "is mortal" is the consequent of the proposition. If men have walked on the Moon, then I am the king of France.

7. Coreference - Wikipedia

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   A particular problem for coreference resolution in English is the pronoun it, which has many uses. It can refer much like he and she , except that it generally refers to inanimate objects (the rules are actually more complex: animals may be any of it , he , or she ; ships are traditionally she ; hurricanes are usually it despite having gendered ...