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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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