Sentence examples for active subject from inspiring English sources

The phrase "active subject" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to grammar, linguistics, or philosophy to refer to a subject that performs an action in a sentence or a discussion about agency.
Example: "In the sentence 'The dog chased the ball,' 'the dog' is the active subject."
Alternatives: "performing subject" or "agentive subject".

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They may account for the spread, but this is still an active subject of research.

In other words, the passive object rather than the active subject.

At the outset of the memoir, Cusk warns the reader that she is writing in "the first heat" of the transformation from active subject to passive vessel.

Kournikova is mending from a stress fracture in her left foot and is not at the Open, but she is an active subject of conversation.

But nature as active subject implies relationships, not simply objective descriptions (that's "natural history writing"), and the difficult work of marrying truth to one's emotional and imaginative responses with truth to an organism's own life.

Indoor iterative localization algorithm of autonomous robots is an active subject because of the environmental complexity.

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Active subjects seem to compensate quicker for an activity-induced energy deficit than inactive individuals (Rocha et al. 2013).

In these photographs Brassaï preferred static over active subjects, but he imbued even the most inanimate images with a warm sense of human life.

Selectable 3×3 groups within the 35-point area are especially effective when shooting active subjects.

To reinforce the link between irisin and exercise, the group also compared sedentary and active subjects.

The active subjects had to nose poke for intraoral administration of sucrose.

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