Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, on Feb. 2009
The term subject proposes various uses of it, one of the most common being the one proposed in the philosophy and that maintains that a subject is that being conscious and in charge of his acts either by his own decision or will, that is, a being, for philosophy is that person who can know with intelligence, reality as an object.
In other contexts, the same term has different references. For example, in those situations in which some personal reason or force major does not want to mention the identity of someone, then the term subject is used to refer to the person in question. Also, when someone's identity is unknown, the word subject is often used to talk about him.
In addition, When one wants to give another the idea or comment that something that interests them for some matter is being subjected to judgment or review, the expression that such a thing is subject to or is susceptible to analysis.
Also When we want to express that something or someone occupies the preferential place of our attention at some particular moment, human beings who speak Spanish usually use the word subject to account for it, for example: Juan is the subject of Maria's attention, if the intention is to mark who is Maria's new love interest.
And finally, another of the meanings, along with the first, the best known and most common for all, regarding the term in question, is the one that occurs in a grammatical context, how many will there be Recorded the little word when they began the study of language on the school… according to grammar the subject is one of the basic elements that make up a sentence, in more formal words it is a noun phrase required by non-impersonal finite verbs and which designates the thing, the animal, person or object.
Although there is no general rule, because of course there are exceptions, frequently the subjects appear before the verb in affirmative sentences, they are commonly active agents and sometimes it is grammatical agreement that will allow us identify them.
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