What Does 'before' And 'after' Really Mean? Can I Use Them To Describe Directions? Can I Use "before" In Describing Places Like The" Market Is Before The Fruit Shop?"
Answer:
Hi,I think your usage is wrong.BEFORE means' at an quicker time; in the past; already ' 'earlier than (sb/sth) 'and something else,but it is concerned with TIME not DIRECTION,so you can speak market is in front of the fruit shop.
It is not necessary to use "before" and "after" to describe directions.
Before can be used to describe places.
It's a typical grammatical question. It depends in which way you are describing the directions. For example, if you are unfolding someone in a way that, " Sir! please go straight afterwards turn to left, then there is a shop which comes beforehand that hotel you're asking for." In this way it is alright and you have made no mistake in using this word.
Let us construe it with using there meaning. If you will see its gist in some famous dictionary you would find it is defined as "ahead of time, early, sooner,surrounded by front, ahead" so you can use this in both ways. For example you can tell someone that you had said this and this previously him.
That means you've said all that in the presence of that specific human being. Similarly you can use it as described in the above example.
The word " After" means "Behind in place or order, subsequent to or lower than in order or importance" So keeping these meanings contained by your mind you can also use after whenever necessary. Let's contemplate the following examples.
1)go after big money.
2)asked after you.
3)they are still friends after all their differences.
Now you can understand it and you can also bring in and use these words in your conversations.
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