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"subject"
Definition: The part of a sentence or clause that indicates what it is about.
Etymology:
From the Latin, "to throw."
Examples:
- "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
(Albert Einstein)
- "This is not a book that should be tossed lightly aside. It should be hurled with great force.
(Dorothy Parker)
- "The orderly came back in a few minutes with a rifle and five cartridges, and meanwhile some Burmans had arrived and told us that the elephant was in the paddy fields below, only a few hundred yards away."
(George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant")
- "Up to the farmhouse to dinner through the teeming, dusty field, the road under our sneakers was only a two-track road."
(E.B. White, "Once More to the Lake")
- "You can't try to do things; you simply must do them."
(Ray Bradbury)
- "Baseball is dull only to dull minds."
(Red Barber)
- "Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason."
(Richard Chenevix Trench)
- "To do the thing properly, with any hope of ending up with a genuine duplicate of a single person, you really have no choice. You must clone them all."
(Lewis Thomas, "The Tucson Zoo")
- "My little brother had not eaten voluntarily in over three years."
(Ralphie in A Christmas Story, 1983)
- "Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it, and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there."
(Don DeLillo)
- "Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults."
(Mitch Hedberg)
- "I am a sophisticated sex robot, sent back in time to change the future for one lucky lady."
(Chuck Sherman in American Pie, 1999)
Pronunciation: SUB-jekt
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