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Subject of sentence

Subject is one of two main parts of sentence together with predicate. It usually express the person or thing which makes or is modified by the action (predicate). However subject may be omitted, typically in impersonal clauses. Subject may be presented by following forms:

It may be hard to distinguish subject from other parts of sentence in following cases:

  • Sentence with ergative structure;
  • when subject is an enclitic pronoun becoming a suffix of person (“Ukhat” = “he goes”)
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