The detective focused on the antecedency of the witness statements to reconstruct the timeline.

The researchers analyzed the antecedencies of the outbreak to identify possible sources.

The antecedent phrase raises a musical question that the consequent phrase then answers.

In discourse analysis, antecedent phrases frequently determine which entities pronouns refer to.

The judge rejected the appeal, explaining that, under the last antecedent rule, the limiting phrase only modified the final item in the statute.