Posted by erica on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 10:18am.
The subject of a sentence may be a noun or a pronoun.
Check these sites for information about sentence structure and parts of speech.
http://www.towson.edu/ows/sentencestruct.htm
http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/sntstrct.html
http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/partsp.html
Ms. Sue is correct and she's given you some excellent websites.
Remember that almost all subjects are either nouns or pronouns, but once in a great while a gerund phrase or an infinitive phrase or a relative clause can serve as a subject. Those are rare, but they do happen.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/phrases.htm#gerund
Notice the 1st example.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/phrases.htm#infinitive
Notice the 3rd and 4th examples.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm#noun
Scroll down until you see the section on NOUN CLAUSES -- there are examples there.
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