awesomeniom.blogg.se - What is the subject of a sentence

So can this gap for instance be the real object of a question? If so, is there a gap in questions like mine functioning as subject? I also know that some theories of grammar say that there is a gap in wh- questions that the wh- word is extracted from. The first noun phrase test is not very good. But of course if we have a question like: There are also tests like " the subject is usually the first noun phrase in the sentence".

Who is the most prolific writer of our age?.

Who are the most prolific writers of our age?.

I can think of tests like: " the form of the verb will agree with the number of the subject", but on the other hand who does not seem to have fixed grammatical number, and it sometimes seems like who might actually be agreeing with noun phrases later in the sentence: We could say that's because it's a subject, but that would be just to presuppose that it's a subject in the first place. But this is a question and there is no auxiliary. I can think of a few tests for subjects like: " the subject is the phrase that inverts with the auxiliary to form a question".

In a question like "Who hears a noise?", is the subject of the sentence who?