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Easy Examples of Subjects

Every sentence must have a verb, and every verb must have a subject. In the examples below, the verbs are shown in bold and the subjects are shaded.

The New York phone book contained 22 Hitlers before World War II.

The world's youngest pope was 11 years old.

All butterflies taste with their feet.

The King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Digital currency will be the greatest social network of all. (Entrepreneur Tyler Winklevoss)

The subject of a sentence is a noun (or a pronoun) and all the modifiers that go with it. In the six examples above, the simple subjects are book, pope, butterflies, king, person, and currency. All the other words that have been shaded as part of the "complete subjects" are modifiers.

A sentence has one main subject, which is the subject of the main verb. However, a sentence can include other subjects that are the subjects of other verbs. Look at these examples:

Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system.

(Venus is the main subject. It is the subject of the main verb is.)

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

(Venus is still the main subject. It is still the subject of the main verb is, but the sentence contains another subject and another verb.)

It is the second brightest object in the night sky.

(Remember that subjects can be pronouns too.)