When we begin to look more closely at the sentences we read and write, it can often be more difficult than we might think to identify the subject of a statement. A first course in grammar will explain that the subject is what the sentence is about, but that can be confusing because more often …
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Where Is the Subject?
The bedrock of grammar, at least the grammar of English and other languages like it, is the connection of a subject and a verb. We speak or write a sentence because we have something to say about something. What we’re saying something about is called the subject, and what we’re saying about that subject is …