Subject

A subject in grammar is the first part of a sentence about which the second part, the predicate, says something. The subject performs an action, or indicates what or who the sentence is about.

In a declarative sentence, the subject comes before verbs such as in the phrase "The bell rings", in which the subject "bell" comes before the verb "sounds". However, in interrogative sentences, a subject follows the auxiliary verb, such as "Does the bell ever ring?" In fact, the subject functions as a noun or a pronoun. For example, in the sentence, "Momma was making our dinner and Uncle Willie leaned against the doorway" (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou), "Momma" and "Uncle Willie" are both subjects.

Subject types
Simple subject - In a simple subject, a noun or a pronoun does the action. Unlike a full subject, you don't need descriptive words or modifiers, just the main noun or pronoun. For example, "Superman saved people."
Here, "Superman" is a simple theme.

Full Subject: A complete subject is the main word of the sentence, along with the modifiers (often adjectives) that describe it. To determine a complete topic, look at all the words that modify it in this example: “The wise and beautiful woman is cold water. ”
In this sentence,“ the wise and beautiful woman ”is a complete subject because“ woman ”did an action,“ fell ”. The words that come before "woman" are modifiers, describing the woman.

Compound subject: A compound subject is a combination of two or more subjects within a sentence. For example, "The girl and her mother are planning vacations."
The underlined part is a compound subject that contains two nouns "girl" and "mother", and includes the connector "and". This is a compound theme because the girl and her mother are doing the action together.

Examples of subjects in literature
Example # 1: The mud scabs: Saber-tooth terrors (by Damian Harvey)
“The saber-toothed tiger prowled around the bottom of the tree, growling, as he searched for an easier way up. Then something caught his attention. "

This excerpt is a good example of a complete topic. In the phrase" The Saber-Toothed Tiger "" Tiger "is the main topic and" Saber-Toothed Tiger "describes and modifies the" Tiger ".

Example 2: Shooting an Elephant (by George Orwell)
"The orderly came back in a few minutes with a rifle and five cartridges, and meanwhile some Burmese had arrived and told us that the elephant was in the rice fields below, only a few hundred yards away."

In this sentence Orwell has the simple ones Themes “neat,” “burmans,” and “elephant.” All of these subjects perform the indicated actions.

Example 3: Master of the Game (by Sidney Sheldon)
“He was nearly eight thousand miles from his father's farm in the Scottish highlands Edinburgh, London, Cape Town and now traveled to Klipdrift ... He knew he would be rewarded ten thousand times. ”

This is another good example of an easy es theme that serves as the pronoun “he” and performs several actions in this scene.

Example 4: The Canterbury Stories (by Geoffrey Chaucer)
“There was once a wealthy old Lout
living in Oxford. Who had some guest rooms that he had rented out, Chaucer used a full theme twice. The first complete topic is "rich old bum" and the "rich, old" modifiers describe the major subject, "bum". Also, "scholar" is a main theme, and is modified by "poor, young."

Example # 5: Gulliver's Travels (by Jonathan Swift)
“The king and queen are moving toward the borders. The author attends them. The way he leaves the country is closely related. Come back to England. "

In this example, Swift has used a compound subject that appears at the beginning of the sentence. This compound subject is a combination of two nouns" king "and" queen ", which are connected by" and ".

Subject function
A subject is an important part of a sentence, indicating an action and showing who is performing that action. A good understanding of how a subject is used is necessary to write a Cohesive and interesting piece of literature. Without a subject, a clause or a sentence is meaningless as to who is performing the given action. This is because either a main noun or a pronoun is needed to indicate the "doer" of the action. Using a topic gives readers a complete idea of what the fictional work is about or who the author is writing about.

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