SUBJECT
Subject complement is a noun ,
pronoun , adjective , or another construction (acting as a noun or adjective )
following verbs of being or linking verb and serves to explain or refer to the
subject of the sentence .
Subject complement is divided into
three , namely : predicate adjective ( subjects connected with the adjective )
, predicate noun ( subject associated with the noun ) , and predicate pronoun (
subject connected with the pronoun ) .
Example: “The subject “David” performs the action of
“playing the piano”.
To determine the subject of a
sentence, first isolate the verb and then make a question by placing “who?” or
“what?” before it. Having identified the Subject, we can see that the remainder
of the sentence tells us what the Subject does or did. We refer to this string
as the “predicate” of the sentence.
Example: “Who interviewed all the witnesses?”
“The police”
(= Subject)
“interviewed all the witnesses” ( = predicate) tell
us what the police did.
Subjects can either be “simple”, “compound” or
“complex”
- Simple
Subject
Composed
of a single pronoun, noun or noun phrase.
- Complex
Subject
A
complex subject consists of a noun phrase and any words, phrases, or clauses
that modify it.
Example:
The man who had followed us inside walked over to the telephone.
central
noun : “man”
complex
subject: “the man who had followed us inside”
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Compound Subject
A
compound subject consists of two or more noun phrases (and their modifiers if
any) joined together with a coordinating conjunction.
Example
: “Neither the superior performance of La Traviata nor the excellent wine at
intermission pleased the wealthy audience”.
Again,
the whole phrase, “neither the superior performance of La Traviata nor the
excellent wine at intermission,” is the subject. The phrase answers the
question, “What pleased the wealthy audience?”
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