Subject
The thing that a sentence is about. It can be represented by a noun, a noun phrase, a pronoun, or something that is nominalised by the use of punctuation. An example is The floating restaurant in The floating restaurant has re-opened.
A more extensive list of grammatical terms is included in The Right Word: A Writer’s Toolkit of Grammar, Vocabulary and Literary Terms (Bloomsbury 2021)
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