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Sunny123 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

before the blackboard

Hello everyone. Please let me know Which one is correct?

1. Please go to the blackboard and write your name on it.

2. Please go before the blackboard and write your name on it.

3. Please go in front of the blackboard and write your name on it.
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sunny123 Which one is correct? Please go to the blackboard and write your name.

— Mister Micawber

  • sunny123 Which one is correct?
  • Please go to the blackboard and write your name.
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sunny123Which one is correct?
Please go to the blackboard and write your name.
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Mister Micawber sunny123Which one is correct?Please go to the blackboard and write your name.
Thank you. Is it possible to use "before the blackboard" any way or it is totally a wrong phrase.
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sunny123Is it possible to use "before the blackboard" any way or it is totally a wrong phrase.
It is totally non-native there.
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sunny123"before the blackboard" any way or it is totally a wrong phrase
Not idiomatic.

You can go before a panel (of people).
Go before the judge (in a court of law)

"go before" relates to people who will hear your argument or case, usually in an official capacity.
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Good explanation. But is it also correct to say ....

1. Last evening I went before my uncle for the dinner.
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1. Last evening I went to dinner before my uncle.
Your uncle ate dinner later than you did.
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AlpheccaStars1. Last evening I went to dinner before my uncle. Your uncle ate dinner later than you did.
Alpheca, I guess you didnt get what I said. When I say .... "1. Last evening I went before my uncle for the dinner."

I meant ... "I was my uncles's guest for the dinner" no matter who started to eat dinner. me or my uncle.
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sunny123I was my uncles's guest for the dinner
I went to my uncle's for dinner.

(Nothing to do with 'before'.)

CJ
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sunny123Alpheca, I guess you didnt get what I said.
We don't use "before" with that meaning.

You can say:
I knelt before my uncle. It means you are being subservient to him, as if he were your king as well as your uncle.
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Hi, I saw the word "before the blackboard" in the following sentence. What is your idea about that?

1. One of the students went to the extent of standing before the blackboard mimicking the teacher who was a stammer.
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