"before" is for time only

[Heema]

English Grammar Error, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #18 "Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs", question 1

I promise I won't be long. Just wait here before the post office so that I can see you.

(a) be long
(b) before
(c) so that

English Grammar Error, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #18 "Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs", answer 1

I promise I won't be long. Just wait here in front of the post office so that I can see you.

Correct entry: in front of
The error was: (b) before
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before is for time only

Heema

[Mister Micawber]

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Hello Heema.

Before is not only for time, but when it is used for location, it is very stylized or poetic and somewhat dated:

Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.


(Macbeth)
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