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pre-subject

pre-subject is the alternative form of presubject.

Meaning of presubject

Adjective

presubject (not comparable)

  1. Occurring before the subject in a sentence or expression.
    • Presubject elements may be conjunctions, prepositional groups, nonfinite clauses, or whole dependent clauses that precede the grammatical subject of the main clause.2009, Representational Systems and Practices as Learning Tools, page 274
    Antonyms:
    postsubject

Questions about pre-subject

What is pre-subject the alternative form of?
Pre-subject is the alternative form of presubject.

Words near pre-subject in the dictionary

  1. pre-stressed
  2. pre-studied
  3. pre-studies
  4. pre-study
  5. pre-studying
  6. pre-subject
  7. pre-suppose
  8. pre-supposed
  9. pre-supposes
  10. pre-supposing
  11. pre-surgery

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-subject (page history and authors); presubject (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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