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Unit 2. The function of the subject - Coggle Diagram
Unit 2. The function of the subject
Subject and Agreement
The grammatical agreement is the agreement of the grammatical accidents of the words that are related to each other within a sentence, governing each other.
The verb agrees with the nucleus of its subject in number and grammatical persons.
If the nuclei of a compound subject represent different grammatical persons, for concordance the first person is preferred to the second, and the latter to the third. As for the number, since it is a compound subject, the verb is plural.
Syntagmatic realizations of the subject
Syntagma
The concept of phrase is a notion that was born with Structuralism. This movement defined the phrase as "a set of at least two elements united by a functional relationship, that is, united by a dependency relationship."
Subject
• Semantically: It is that of which something is affirmed or denied.
• Functionally: It is the immediate constituent of a sentence that is not the predicate.
• Formally: It is the immediate constituent of a sentence that requires that the other constituent - the predicate - agrees with it in number, person and gender.
Subject and impersonality
In a (too) broad sense, we call any sentence without a subject impersonal sentence.
False impersonal (impersonal semantics): They do not have a subject but can have it (= is omitted).
True impersonal (syntactic impersonal): They neither have a subject nor can they have it.
Subject and use Preposition
The subject can have as a complement all the words that are joined to it, with or without a preposition, to clarify or complete its meaning.
Subject and Countable Nouns
Countable nouns: They indicate entities that can be counted, for example five children, three rocks, thirteen euros.