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presubject

presubject adjective: occurring before the subject in a sentence or expression.

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
    • 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.2010, Isabelle Brill, Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy: Syntax and Pragmatics
    Antonyms:
    postsubject

Antonyms of presubject

Forms of presubject

alternative formpre-subject

Origin of presubject

From pre- + subject.

Questions about presubject

What does presubject mean?
Presubject means occurring before the subject in a sentence or expression.
What part of speech is presubject?
Presubject is an adjective.

Words near presubject in the dictionary

  1. prestyloid
  2. presubgenual
  3. presubicula
  4. presubicular
  5. presubiculum
  6. presubject
  7. presubmission
  8. presubmissions
  9. presubmit
  10. presubmits
  11. presubmitted

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