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Subject Sentence Person Thing  Was Generally Performs Action

Front subject
Back The subject of a sentence is generally the person or thing that the sentence is about, often the person or thing that performs the action of a verb. For example: The restaurant was packed. He was eating a sandwich. Compare with object. Here's some help on matching subjects with verbs.

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