in the sentence 'the cat jumped over the mat' is the word cat in front or behind the word jumped.
Cat comes before jumped . It is in front of jumped .
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carscarf977in the sentence 'the cat jumped over the mat' is the word cat in front or behind the word jumped.
Use "before" and "after", otherwise people like me have to think a minute because if I'm the word "jumped", the word "over" is in front of me because I am facing the same way as reading flows. This is the opposite of the accepted meaning.