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Sentences and Style
Learn about English sentence rules and style suggestions to help you become a more confident writer
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Subject
The subject of a sentence is the person or thing the sentence focuses on. The subject is a noun, pronoun, or gerund that does the action of a verb within a sentence.
For example, in the sentence 'I like to walk in the forest', "I" is the subject.
