Sentence examples for explicit subjects from inspiring English sources

"explicit subjects" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is most commonly used in the context of grammar, where an explicit subject refers to a subject that is clearly and directly stated, as opposed to an implicit subject, which is implicit or implied in a sentence but not explicitly stated. For example: In the sentence "John left early," the subject is explicit, whereas in the sentence "It was raining," the subject is implicit.

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Farce, fraud, and corruption were the explicit subjects of the debate.

Imperatives need no subject (Run!), and sentence fragments can make sense without explicit subjects: Woke up.

Finally, explicit Subjects, whether nominal or pronomial, are required in those relational clauses in which the Finite/Predicator element is in ellipsis, as in example [52].

Both Cleary and Heng use 'marked' imperatives (cf. Halliday and Matthiessen 2004, 138) with explicit subjects (each of you and all of you) to emphasize the audience as responsible to carry out the action.

And considering that all his virtuoso drawings have sexually explicit subjects, you might want to enjoy them without in-laws or your kids nearby.

The title of the film shows McQueen's efforts to be earnest and somewhat moralistic, which is sometimes necessary to forge new ground on explicit subjects.

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It's a play riddled with absurdity, to be sure, but grief is its explicit subject.

I was interested to see that Ward was making it the explicit subject of his show.

That became the explicit subject of "Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947 1985" (2003), McCourt's cultural geography of the postwar gay imagination.

If you're not attracted to that, and want an explicit subject matter and message – which people often do today – these paintings are probably too subtle, ungiving.

The struggle between parent and child that is the explicit subject of so many bedtime stories is, in "Goodnight Moon," only implicit.

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