presubject
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See also: pre-subject
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Adjective
presubject (not comparable)
- (grammar, of a part of speech) Occurring before the subject in a sentence or expression.
- Antonym: postsubject
- 2009, Representational Systems and Practices as Learning Tools, page 274:
- Presubject elements may be conjunctions, prepositional groups, nonfinite clauses, or whole dependent clauses that precede the grammatical subject of the main clause.
- 2010, Isabelle Brill, Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy: Syntax and Pragmatics:
- Tense/aspect/mood (tam) particles furnish a broad range of conjugation patterns (i.e. patterns in which verb stem can appear) and can be subdivided into two positional classes of preverbal and presubject particles.
- 2013, Eugene A. Nida, A Synopsis of English Syntax:
- These may occur in presubject position, prepredicate position, within the verb phrase, preceding equated attributives, and final to the clause.