Showing posts with label SYNTACTIC RELATIONS. Show all posts
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Saturday, October 20, 2012

3. THE SUBJECT

I. DEFINITION


The subject is one of the two main parts of the sentence which together with the predicate constitutes the binary predicative bond. Predicative bond between the S /the thing subjected to description/ on the one hand and the P which predicates / “says” / sth about the S on the other hand is the structural backbone of the sentence. To define S we need to take into account the following points: