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THE SUBJECT'S ROLE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 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.
        You, him and I will form a formal partnership.
        You: 2nd person singular
        He: 3rd person singular We will constitute: 1st person plural I: 1st person singular
        You and he know my views.
        You: 2nd person singular You know: 2nd person plural He: 3rd person singular
        
        YOU and its plural YOU - 2nd person pronouns - are used with the verb in 3rd person.
        You are always ready for anything.
        You: 2nd person singular. Is: 3rd person singular.
        You do not know the lesson of the day.
        You: 2nd person plural. They do not know: 3rd person plural.
        
        If the nucleus of the subject is a collective noun followed by a complement whose term is in the plural, the verb will be able to agree indistinctly, already in the singular with the collective nucleus, and in the plural with the term of the complement.
        The flock of coots flew low to the ground.
        The flock of coots flew low to the ground.
        
        When in a compound subject, one of its nuclei summarizes or significantly contains all the others, the verb agrees in the singular with said nucleus.
        The father, the mother and the children, the whole family, will go on vacation.
        
        When the singular nuclei of a compound subject are united by the NI and O coordinators, it is frequent and possible to use the verb already in the singular, or in the plural.
        One or the other awaits his reward.
        One or the other awaits their reward.
        Neither one understands their attitude.
        Neither one understands his attitude.
        When the nuclei of a compound subject are neutral forms, the verb is used in the singular.
        This and that is of little interest.
        
        When the nuclei of a compound subject are infinitive, the verb is used in the singular.
        I like to study and draw.
        Coming and going is tiring.
- - - - True impersonal (syntactic impersonal)
        They neither have a subject nor can they have it. The causes of impersonality are syntactic (verbs that do not sub-categorize - do not require - subject or syntactic structures in which the subject position is blocked by a clit).
- - - - Nouns used in different sentences can perform different functions such as: circumstantial complement, agent, indirect modifier, predicative function, as apposition, etc.
        
        Accessories. --- Both the subject and the predicate can be accompanied by one or more words that complete their meaning and that, precisely because of that function they perform, are called complements.