Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

grammatical subject

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English

Syllables: gram-mat-i-cal -sub-ject
IPA

36

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

a term (as a noun or pronoun) in a sentence that occupies the position of the subject in normal English word order and anticipates a subsequent word or phrase that specifies the actual substantive content.

Example Sentences

"In the sentence ‘the bear was killed by the hunter’, the topicalized goal of the action (‘the bear’) is the grammatical subject of the passive sentence and is acted upon by the agent (‘the hunter’), which is the logical, but not the grammatical, subject of the passive sentence."

Questions

What does grammatical subject mean?: a term (as a noun or pronoun) in a sentence that occupies the position of the subject in normal English word order and anticipates a subsequent word or phrase that specifies the actual substantive content.

How to pronounce grammatical subject

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