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What is the subject of a sentence

So far, we have looked at how to punctuate but what's in the sentence that makes it a sentence?

There are subjects and verbs but let's take a look at subjects first

Subjects are always nouns or pronouns, but we'll look at those later

The subject is the noun that the whole sentence is about

All sentences need a subject to be complete

The subject is the person place or thing that does the action of a sentence

In the sentence the food was delicious.

The subject is food as food is what the whole sentence is about

But what about there is more than one noun?

Trick

Take out all the nouns and see if the sentence makes sense. If you take out the least important nouns and gave one noun, that if you take out the whole sentence dose make sense then you have a subject.

Example

The food was delicous

If we took out the subject food

The was delicious ' we don't know what's delicious this is how important it is for us to have a subject in our sentences'

The only sentences that don't need a subject are short commands and short sentences

Example

Go home there is no subject in the sentence but the person your telling is the subject

Guidelines

For finding a subject in a sentence make sure that

. '' '' the word is a noun

. '' '' it tells us what the whole sentence is about

. '' '' it tells us the person place or thing that did the action

.'' '' is the most important noun in a sentence

If your word has passed all the guidelines then you have a subject

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What is the main verb in a sentence?

The main verb us the most important verb in a sentence

A main verb us the most important verb in the sentence- it's the action the subject does.

In every sentence the subject will do some kind of a action

Every sentence needs a verb

Verbs are doing words