Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Subjects
In the sentence, What is the subject of this sentence? , is What the subject? Or, is it an inverted sentence with subject as the subject? It's the same as Who am I? with who as the subject, right?
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I think you are on the right track. Who is John? John is a teacher.
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I think you are on the right track.
Who is John?
John is a teacher.
Inverted: A teacher is what /how John is.
So "What is the subject of this sentence?" , by this reasoning ,then "what" is the subject". That's how I would approach it.
Who is John?
John is a teacher.
Inverted: A teacher is what /how John is.
So "What is the subject of this sentence?" , by this reasoning ,then "what" is the subject". That's how I would approach it.
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