Factors vs Antecedent - What's the difference?
factors | antecedent |
Earlier, either in time or order.
presumptive
Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
An ancestor.
(grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.
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(logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition.
(math) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a'' in the ratio ''a:b , the other being the consequent.
As nouns the difference between factors and antecedent
is that factors is plural of lang=en while antecedent is in “The policeman asked the boy what he was doing.”, the phrase “the boy” is the antecedent of the pronoun “he”.As a verb factors
is third-person singular of factor.As an adjective antecedent is
earlier, either in time or order.antecedent
English
(wikipedia antecedent)Adjective
(-)- an event antecedent to the Biblical Flood
- an antecedent cause
- an antecedent improbability
Noun
{{examples-right, sense=linguistics: expression referred to by pronoun, examples= * In “The policeman asked the boy what he was doing.”, the phrase “the boy” is the antecedent of the pronoun “he”. * In the sentence “I saw my girlfriend yesterday wearing her old jacket which is odd because she almost never wears it.”, the phrase “my girlfriend” is the antecedent of “her” and “old jacket” is the antecedent of “it”.}} (en noun)- [W]hereas it might seem orderly that, as who'' is appropriated to persons, so ''that'' should have been appropriated to things the antecedent of ''that is often personal.
- One such condition can be formulated in terms of the
c-command relation defined in (9) above: the relevant condition is given in (16)
below:
(16) C-COMMAND CONDITION ON ANAPHORS
An anaphor must have an appropriate c-commanding antecedent
- (rfex)
