English/Parts of the Sentence/Subjects
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| Word functions: Subjects - Predicates - Direct Objects - Indirect Objects - Objects of the Preposition |
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A subject is the main idea of a sentence. It is usually made of a noun or noun phrase. It is what the sentence is about.
- For example: Phil is tall.
- "Phil" is the subject of the sentence.
- "Phil" is a proper noun, the name of a person.
A sentence can also have more than one subject.
- For example: The man and his wife are moving to New York.
- This sentence has two subjects.
- One subject is "the man".
- The other subject is "his wife".
When a sentence has more than one subject, we call it a compound subject.
You may go back to the description of parts of the sentence or on to the next page about predicates.