Sentence Subject

A Sentence Subject is the Syntactic Element of a Sentence which performs the action of the Verb.

• AKA: Subject, Syntactic Subject.
• Context:
  • It can be described by a Predicate Phrase.
  • It can denote the doer of an action, if the Verb is an Action Verb/Active Verb.
  • It can denote something that is acted upon, if the Verb is a Passive Verb.
  • It can demote the existence of a thing, if the Verb is a Being Verb.
  • It can be renamed or described, if the Verb is a Being Verb of a Linking Verb. (a Subjective Complement).
  • It can agree with the Verb in person and in number, in, in English and Spanish.
• Example(s):
  • "[I] ate."
  • "[X] gave [Y] a [Z]"; where [math]\displaystyle{ X }[/math] is the Sentence Subject, [math]\displaystyle{ Y }[/math] is the Indirect Object, a Z is the Direct Object, and gave is an Action Verb.
  • "[Y] received a [Z]"; where [math]\displaystyle{ Y }[/math] is the Sentence Subject, a Z is the Direct Object, and received is a Passive Verb.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • “ate the apple” as in "I [ate the apple]." a Predicate Phrase.
  • “the apple” as in "I ate [the apple]." a Sentence Object.
  • “me” as in "The apple was eaten by [me]." a Sentence Object in a Passive Sentence.
• See: Sentence Object, Predicate Phrase, Compound Subject.

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