CHAPTER5
Using Nouns and Pronouns as Subjects
In This Chapter
- Recognizing the subject in a sentence
- Making a noun plural or possessive
- Starting a sentence with a pronoun
- Beginning a sentence with it, they, or there
- Dealing with some commonly confused pronouns
Thing is one of the broadest, most general words in English. In a way, everything is a thing. All those things have nouns that represent them, and just as there are varied nouns, there are diverse subjects of sentences.
Every sentence and every clause has a subject, but they don’t all have the same type of subject. The subject may be a noun or a pronoun, singular or plural, stated or unstated. ...
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