BEHIND : IN FRONT (OF)

Topic 28

  

BEHIND : IN FRONT (OF)

Behind and in front (of) are opposites

* There is a garden in front of the house and a large orchard behind (the house).

[Orchard: garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth]

Orchard in Urdu language (پھلوں کا باغ) (نخلستان)

* Jack and Mary were sitting two rows in front of me, and Tom and Anne were two rows behind me.

Note that before cannot always be used for in front of. Before usually suggests ‘face to face with’, as in ‘to be brought before the magistrates’. Behind and in front are used adverbially.

* He couldn’t walk so fast as the others, and slowly fell behind.

* The bests are those in front.

Behind is used figuratively.

* It is unkind to criticize a man behind his back (i.e. when he is not present).

* You can’t fight a duel nowadays; you’re behind the times (i.e. out of the date, old-fashioned).