Sentence examples for empty subject from inspiring English sources

"empty subject" is a correct term in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a subject in a sentence that is present grammatically, but left blank semantically. For example: "___ has done an excellent job." Here, the empty subject (the blank space) is inferred to be whoever is responsible for the task.

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The null operator is then identified with the empty subject [e] (as marked by ku').

eThe secondary predicate may be predicated of an empty subject in the second conjunct, along the lines in Huang (1992), and the empty subject refers to the main clause in the first conjunct.

The empty subject could be an empty pronominal in the sense of Huang (1992) or a silent expression in the sense of Kayne (2015).

Plato thus determines subject and predicate as relational elements in a statement and excludes as statements subject-predicate combinations containing empty subject expressions.

The wording of SQUARE does not rule out the possibility of truth-valueless sentences so Strawson's view that empty subject terms lead to lack of truth value does not conflict with SQUARE.

For example, Strawson's reinterpreted version of conversion holds for the I form because any I form proposition entails its own converse: if 'Some A is B' and 'Some B is A' both have truth value, then neither has an empty subject term, and so if neither lack truth value and if either is true the other will be true as well.

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But the truth of such indefinite propositions with empty subjects does not bear on the forms of propositions that occur in the square.

Empty subjects (C2, I5, I3 and I6) underwent pharmacological euthanasia after anaesthesia, whereas the pregnant animals were euthanized on DAI +52 (C3), +55 (I1 and I2) +56 (C1 and I4).

He remained there for 10 years, but talks with some regret about having 'wasted much of my career working on the emptiest subject, the genetics of snails, while many of my contemporaries have turned into the best cutting-edge genetic biologists of our time'.

If all variants of s with respect to i with non-empty subject ideas are true, m = n and m/n = 1, i.e., s is universally valid with respect to i; if all variants are false, m = 0 and m/n = 0, i.e., s is universally contravalid with respect to i (WL II, 81 f).

The decision on the Oswiecim synagogue was relatively simple, as the building was empty and subject to no other claims.

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