Subject

The subject of a sentence is the person or thing doing the action or being described.

• True

• False

Select the answer that is the subject of this sentence:

Actions speak louder than words.

• speak

• words

• louder

• actions

Select the subject of this sentence.

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children. 

(Henry Morton Stanley)

• the sky

• smiles

• earth

• children

Select the answer that is the simple subject of this sentence:

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

• mother

• own mother

• her own mother

Select the answer that is the complete subject of this sentence:

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power. (Robert Shea)

• anyone

• anyone who seeks power

• who seeks power

• power

Identify the correct type of a pronoun as a subject in the following sentence:

Everyone was silent for a minute.

• interrogative pronoun

• defining pronoun 

• demonstrative pronoun 

• indefinite pronoun

Identify the correct type of a pronoun as a subject in the following sentence:

Nothing was said on either side for a minute or two afterwards. 

• defining pronoun 

• demonstrative pronoun 

• negative pronoun

•  interrogative pronoun 

Identify a way of expressing the subject in the following sentence:

Annette’s being French might upset him a little.

• a gerund

• a gerundial phrase

• a gerundial construction

• an infinitive construction

Indicate a way of expressing the subject in the following sentence:

To be a rich man, Lieutenant, is not always roses and beauty. 

• an infinitive 

• an infinitive phrase

• a gerundial phrase

• a gerundial constuction

‘It’ in the sentence “It’s Alan and Margaret at the door” is called

• A ‘free’ subject

• A ‘full’ subject

• An "empty" subject

• A ‘complete’ subject