what is antecedent
An antecedent is a thing that comes before something else. You might think rap music has no historical antecedent, but earlier forms of African-American spoken verse go back for centuries. In logic, mathematics, and grammar, the word antecedent (from Latin ante-, before + cedere, to yield) has the meaning the first part of a statement.. More generally, it means something that came before, and perhaps caused, something else..