"What Is a Subject in Grammar?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar
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- čas přidán 5. 06. 2024
- Senior Lecturer J.T. Bushnell offers a firm grasp on an especially slippery grammatical subject: the subject. This video explains the subject-predicate relationship, offers several useful methods for identifying the subject, introduces a functional definition for the subject, and provides numerous entertaining examples. This series is designed to help high school and college students make sense of difficult terms and confusing grammatical conventions, identify parts of speech and grammatical constructions, and advance their awareness of their own linguistic intuition.
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Finally, I understand what a subject is. Thank you very much 😊😊😊
You're very welcome, Dodi Bird! We hope you enjoy the other videos in our series as well!
Finally a proper explanation of what a subject is.
Thanks so much for your kind words, Health Quest! We hope you enjoy the other videos in the series as well!
Tea is made every day. In this case , what is your definition for subject . In general both active voice and passive voice sentences what would be the definition for subject ?
Great question, AUM English Academy. Prof. Bushnell suggests in this video that the subject controls the predicating verb here, so one way to test out the answer is to play around with potential subjects and to ask if the predicating verb is influenced by this change. Which of the following two sentences is correct: "The teas is made every day" or "The teas are made every day"?
Thanks for sharing this sir. I love English so much and it's what I want to study in the University.
Thanks so much, Friday! We hope you enjoy the other videos in our series as well!
Challenge round! Can you identify the subject of the following sentence?
"As this video shows, understanding grammar requires extensive knowledge of dancing robots."
If you have any thoughts, we hope you'll share them in the comments section below. You are also welcome to ask us a question or share your thoughts on this way of identifying subjects in sentences. Thanks for reading, everybody!
Sir What about in states of being sentences, because the subject is doer of an action?
Interesting! Could you give us an example, Zareen?
London is the big city.
This is red.
The Car is beautiful.
I know the subject but where is the action?
@@zareensohail2160 Great question, Zareen! This is precisely why Professor Bushnell suggests that definitions like "the subject is the doer of the action" are inadequate. A better definition, as he mentions in the video, is the subject is "the element that controls the predicating verb." In this case, we can see how the subject controls the predicating verb in the case of "The car is beautiful" and a related sentence "The cars are beautiful." Notice how the predicating verb (is) changes based upon the change in the subject. When the subject becomes plural, the predicating verb has to change to accommodate.
Thanks a lot
I like this approach to understanding the subject. Not a native speaker, but I am learning. Is the answer video?
"Video" is the subject of the first clause, but it isn't the subject of the sentence. Tricky, right?
@@SWLF very much tricky would it be " grammar," then?
@@missmiss6516 Close but incomplete. :)
@@SWLF WILL I EVER GET IT RIGHT? IS IT THOSE SMOOTH MOVED DANCING ROBOTS?
@@missmiss6516 Ha! Those robots are pretty distracting, aren't they? Here's a hint: you are halfway right.
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Thanks so much for watching, Manha!
@@SWLF I m a researcher on grammar. Tom is to be doing the work. How to make passive of this.
I like subject because i like to walk
This is a highly enigmatic comment, Tamim!
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😅😅😅😅😅😅😅❤❤❤nice
Thanks so much for the love, Ravalika! We hope you enjoy the other videos in our series as well!