Sentence examples for grammatical subjects from inspiring English sources
Its master, however, was al-Ḥarīrī (died 1122), postmaster (head of the intelligence service) at Basra and an accomplished writer on grammatical subjects.
The grammatical subjects of 2 and 3 do not express the subject of the change.
The fact that the grammatical subjects of such sentences cannot be inanimate suggests that liah8-tsun2 is not dislocatable.
In effect, and very much in keeping with his incipient distinction between logical and grammatical subjects, Russell struggled against the ontologization of semantical non-singularity.
Names, for instance, might possibly appear closer to the right of a full stop than to its left, as they often function as grammatical subjects.
They may be grammatical subjects (e.g., 'That Knowles lost the election is surprising'), complements to verbs (e.g., as in 'The barometer indicated that it is going to rain'), complements to adjectives ('I am happy that it is going to rain'), and complements to nouns ('The possibility that it will rain should be borne in mind').
In what Nishida alternatively called the logic of objects or subjective logic, objects of consciousness are made the grammatical subject of propositions or judgments, and are specified by predicating properties of the subject.
They are no longer the star of the show, the grammatical subject.
(A statement with a grammatical subject as broad as "we as a culture" has acquired a lot of inaccuracy and even profound wrongness before it reaches its predicate — and we as a culture seem more drawn than ever to these sorts of broad pronouncements).
It has been pointed out that, in languages with a free word order (such as Czech or Latin), the theme tends to precede the rheme, regardless of whether the theme or the rheme is the grammatical subject, and that this principle may still operate, in a more limited way, in languages, like English, with a relatively fixed word order (compare "That book I haven't seen before").
Only in 1 is the grammatical subject expressive of the subject of the change.
