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Some Latin adjectives like prior, junior, superior, posterior, anterior etc always have preposition 'to' after them in. English. EnglishLanguage&UsageStackExchangeisaquestionandanswersiteforlinguists,etymologists,andseriousEnglishlanguageenthusiasts.Itonlytakesaminutetosignup. Signuptojointhiscommunity Anybodycanaskaquestion Anybodycananswer Thebestanswersarevotedupandrisetothetop Home Public Questions Tags Users Unanswered Teams StackOverflowforTeams –Startcollaboratingandsharingorganizationalknowledge. CreateafreeTeam WhyTeams? Teams CreatefreeTeam Teams Q&Aforwork Connectandshareknowledgewithinasinglelocationthatisstructuredandeasytosearch. LearnmoreaboutTeams Priortouseorpriortousing[closed] AskQuestion Asked 4years,6monthsago Modified 4years,6monthsago Viewed 19ktimes 1 1 Closed.Thisquestionisoff-topic.Itisnotcurrentlyacceptinganswers. Pleaseincludetheresearchyou’vedone,orconsiderifyourquestionsuitsourEnglishLanguageLearnerssitebetter.Questionsthatcanbeansweredusingcommonly-availablereferencesareoff-topic. Closed4yearsago. Improvethisquestion Iamjustconfusedaboutusing"priorto".AsIunderstand,aftertheword"to",wealwaysuseaverbwith"ing".However,Ireadthatwecanuse"priorto"withaverbwithout"ing". Forexample,whichofthefollowingsentencesiscorrectandwhy? 1-Priortointroducethemethodof.... 2-Priortointroducingthemethodof... Couldsomeonehelpmetounderstandwhatisthecorrectoneandwhy,please? word-usage Share Improvethisquestion Follow editedJun15,2020at7:40 CommunityBot 1 askedFeb4,2018at8:09 SilverSilver 2111goldbadge11silverbadge44bronzebadges 1 Justwrite“before”.Itisshorter,morefamiliarandplainEnglish.Icanthinkofnocircumstanceswhere“priorto”isneededinstead. – David Feb4,2018at16:14 Addacomment  |  2Answers 2 Sortedby: Resettodefault Highestscore(default) Datemodified(newestfirst) Datecreated(oldestfirst) 1 SomeLatinadjectiveslikeprior,junior,superior,posterior,anterioretcalwayshavepreposition'to'afterthemin.English.Weknowinfinitiveisaverbformwith'to'asitsintegralpart(exceptbareinfinitiveandthefewspecialuses).Aftercomparativesasthesewithpreposition'to'astheirintegrals,weuseagerundbecauseofalltheverbformsonlyagerund(V+ing)canfunctionasanoun.Moreover'priorto'and'to+baseverb'canbenonsensical. HencewehavetouseanounoranonfiniteV+ingformfunctioningasnoun. Priortotheintroductionof... Priortointroducingthemethodof... butnotXpriortointroducethemethod...X Share Improvethisanswer Follow answeredFeb4,2018at10:43 BaridBaranAcharyaBaridBaranAcharya 2,3091111silverbadges1313bronzebadges 1 1 Maybeworthnotingthatuseintheoriginalexamplewouldberoughlyequivalenttotheintroductioninyours(standingfor[the]use[ofthething]). – WillCrawford Feb4,2018at12:28 Addacomment  |  3 Unfortunately,you'remakingafalseanalogy. In priortouse theworduseisanoun,pronouncedwithans-sound,notaninfinitive,pronouncedwithaz-sound. Thustofollowthepattern,yourexamplewouldhavetobe priorto[the]introduction Share Improvethisanswer Follow answeredFeb4,2018at8:45 KarlGKarlG 27.5k77goldbadges4242silverbadges8080bronzebadges Addacomment  |  Nottheansweryou'relookingfor?Browseotherquestionstaggedword-usageoraskyourownquestion. FeaturedonMeta Recentsiteinstability,majoroutages–July/August2022 PleasewelcomeValuedAssociate#1301-Emerson Tagsolutionbyvoting(tagmerge,renameorremove):[terminology]vs.... 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