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subject (grammar)
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subject

Traditionally, one of the two main parts of a sentence, the other being the predicate. In grammar, the noun or pronoun that carries out the action of the verb in a sentence, as in ‘The dog chased the cat’. The subject also controls the form and number of the verb.

Subjects are most difficult to identify when they are implied, as in ‘Save me!’, where the subject is ‘you’.
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Namely, the grammatical subject is defined syntactically, while the conceptual one semantically, thus it is the one to whom the grammatical subject refers to.
The semantic dissolution of the structure in ME shulen on its path to ... by Wawrzyniak, Agnieszka / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
In the passive voice, the same action is referred to indirectly: that is, the original "receiver" of the action is the grammatical subject and the original "doer" of the action is the grammatical subject of a passive verb is the original object of an objective verb, only a transitive verb may be used in the passive voice.
The danger of passivity. (Language Teaching & Learning) by Gonzalez, Luis A. / Academic Exchange Quarterly
whereas Butler has" 'Tis"); and in his zeal for changing Godwin's text, he not only "modernizes" spelling (unnecessarily and to the detriment of MIM's charm) but reparagraphs and breaks sentences in two (altering the grammatical subject, and with it the sense, at least once).
The Man in the Moon by Philmus, Robert M. / Renaissance Quarterly
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