Sentence and Its parts (Simple and Complete Subject)

 

Simple and Complete Subject:

  The noun or pronoun by itself is the simple subject. This subject is important to identify because it controls the form of the verb. The simple subject and the verb form it controls are in italic type in these examples :

=> One of the ships is sinking. ( The noun phrase that is the noun and all its modifiers is the complete subject ( One of the ships ).

   Sometimes more than one nominal can be used as the subject of the sentence. The combination of several nominals to express the topic of the sentence is called  a  compound subject :

=> The drivers and the loaders have threatened tp strike.

=> Not only the price but also the quality of their products fluctuate wildly.

=> What he did and what he said were not the same.