What is Subject (grammar)?
The '''subject''' in [[grammar]] is the agent (the 'doer') in an active [[sentence]] such as: ''Alan kissed Jane''. However, there is a difficulty. The following two sentences are identical in meaning: *''Our children planted a tree''. *''A tree was planted by our children''. Only in the first sentence is ''our children'' the grammatical subject. So there is a difference between the logical subject and the grammatical subject.<ref>McArthur, Tom (ed) 1992. ''The Oxford companion to the English language''. Oxford University Press.</ref><sup>p996</sup> Also, many sentences have no subject, for instance: *''Come here!'' *''Identifying the thief may take some time''. If a sentence does have a subject, then the rest of the sentence may be called the ''[[Predicate (grammar)|predicate]]''. == References == {{Reflist}} [[Category:Grammar]]