DEFINITION AND EXAMPLES OF SENTENCE OF UNCLEAR SUBJECT

The subject is one of the parts of the sentence, he will be the one perform the verb action and therefore it becomes a key figure when giving meaning to a message. There are different types of subjects and so that you have no doubts about them, in this lesson from a PROFESSOR we want to show you examples of unspoken subject sentences so that you understand well what they are and can easily identify them in a sentence.

First of all, the subjectis one of the parts of speech and is used to define the person, animal or thing that he is performing an action in a certain context. Through the subject we identify and name the individual to exercise the action of the verb.

Therefore, and taking into account that the subject serves to identify and define the individual, there may be different subject types such as the tacit and the explicit. The explicit, for their part, are those subjects who appear clearly in the sentence, that is, we see and identify them easily. Let's look at some examples of an explicit subject to understand it better:

• Juan he knocked on the door.
• The dog ran away from home.
• My mother she is very tall.
• The president of the community she called a meeting for the next week.

In these four examples we can see that the subject appears clearly and it is the one that performs the action of the verb. Indicated in bold you can see each of them.

The unspoken subjects: easy definition

On the other hand, we must deal with the definition of unspoken subjects, which are the ones that concern us on this occasion. In this case, the subject of the sentence does not appear as in the previous case in a direct way, but it is possible to assume it very simply. That is, the tacit subject is found in sentences that do not have a name or pronoun that does the grammatical function of the subject. The subject does not appear directly, but it can be assumed through the verbal tense or referentially.

This type of tacit subject, by its nature can also be defined as omitted or elliptical subject because it does not appear in a visible way in the sentence, but we know that it is there even if it does not have its own elements that testify to it.

This type of subject is widely used in the Spanish language and therefore it is convenient to know how to identify it at the time to carry out a grammar analysis, since you will find it very recurrent in any type of text. The use of the unspoken subject helps to achieve greater fluency and comprehension in texts since the use of unnecessary repetitions is avoided. Next we will see an example of an unspoken subject in a text:

• It was twelve o'clock on a Saturday night in the heart of the city. Juan and I were tired of walking the streets full of crowds that overwhelmed us at every step. We decided to stop for a moment in that corner and look up. Without realizing it, time stopped and we could appreciate the brightness of that star that made us feel again as if we were alone in the middle of nowhere.

In this text we can find several subjects, some of them tacit and others explicit. In this case, the story of two people who are identified in the second sentence is being narrated: Juan and I. The subject remains throughout the story, but appears omitted, something that we will see very clearly in the following sentence:

We decided to stop for a moment in that corner and look up.

In this case the verb we decided to it does not count with no subject explicitly, but thanks to the context and the verb tense we can know who has performed the action of the verb. In this case, the subject is still Juan and I, or failing that, the pronoun U.S, which on this occasion and with the aim of improving the text has been elided, so we could transform the phrase into:

• (Juan and I) We decided to stop for a moment in that corner and look up.
• (We) decided to stop for a moment in that corner and look up.

Now you know what the unspoken subject consists of and you have learned to identify it in a text. So that you can understand this concept even better and know how to identify it easily, pay attention to the following examples of sentences with an unspoken subject where you will find the omitted subject in parentheses:

1. (You) Take your sister by car so she won't be late.
2. (I) I think I will be able to pass the exam if (I) prepare well for the subject.
3. (The shopkeeper) He has raised the prices of his products again to get more profits.
4. (He) wants to leave as soon as possible so that he can go to see his mother at the hospital where she is admitted.
5. (You) Lend me your pen, please, mine has run out of ink and I can't write my email to you.
6. (We) Tomorrow we will be married for four years.
7. (She) She has lived in Malaga since she finished her university degree.
8. (You) unilaterally decided to break the conditions signed in the lease.

We hope these examples have helped you better understand what unspoken subjects are and their examples to understand how they are used within sentences. If you want to discover more lessons like this, do not hesitate to visit our section on Grammar and Linguistics in which you will find very interesting articles.