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Question: Identify the subject in each of the examples below. Present the reasoning that tells you it is the subject. Use the syntactic tests that are appropriate, and explain why the other tests are not appropriate. Remember that the subject is a phrase. It might be a one-word phrase, but it's a phrase, not a word. For example, the subject of

"the chances of finding out what's really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied"

is not chances, it's the chances of finding out what's really going on in the universe.

Here's an example of how to do the next 4 questions. Make sure you do áll 4 steps for each question:

"being popular doesn't make you talented."

The subject is being popular.

1. It's in the position before the verb, does.

2. It's a noun phrase and not a pronoun, so it doesn't show case. But we could replace it with a nominative pronoun (she doesn't make you popular), not an accusative one (her doesn't make you popular).

3. The agreement test might not be really appropriate, because it's a clause and not a noun phrase, so it doesn't have number. On the other hand, we can say that clauses take singular verbs. If we changed it to a plural subject, like the ideas of popularity, the verb would have to change to do, so it does actually agree.

4. If we make the clause interrogative, it inverts with the verb. Doesn't being popular make you talented?

Therefore the evidence demonstrates that being popular is the subject.

Question 1.

It's a hot, and kinda boring, drive from the Bay Area to Anaheim.

Question 2.

Were all of his ideas perfect?

Question 3.

Someday I may live a more sophisticated life.

Question 4.

As it happened, he also got hired by my church to be music director.