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-A syntactic element of a sentence that is one of two main constituents. The subject in a sentence is almost always a noun phrase containing an agent or a noun that is performing some sort of action. In English, the subject is usually linked to its complimentary constituent the predicate, which  contains a verb and modifies the subject, indicating the subject’s subsequent action or state of being.
 ==See Also==
 [[Object (definition)]]