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Search phrase: preceding

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
All's Well That Ends Well	AW V.iii.196	Of six preceding ancestors, that gem	Of sixe preceding Ancestors that Iemme
Hamlet	Ham I.i.122	As harbingers preceding still the fates

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Elision	... and do are commonly contracted with a preceding pronoun in colloquial speech as in mod...
Responses	...t any direct response being made to the preceding utterance item location...
Stage directions	...bered with reference to the immediately preceding line and all stage directions within a...

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Word Family	Word Family Group	Words
PRECEDENT	BASIC	preceding adj

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