Presubject

Quick meaning: Presubject is an adjective meaning (grammar, of a part of speech) Occurring before the subject in a sentence or expression.

Meaning

(grammar, of a part of speech) Occurring before the subject in a sentence or expression.

Example Sentences

These may occur in presubject position, prepredicate position, within the verb phrase, preceding equated attributives, and final to the clause.

Presubject elements may be conjunctions, prepositional groups, nonfinite clauses, or whole dependent clauses that precede the grammatical subject of the main clause.

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.

Word Forms

• pre-subject

Antonyms for presubject

Common opposites include postsubject.

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