What questions does the subject answer?

The subject is the main member of the proposalalong with the predicate. Usually the subject calls the object, which is mentioned in the sentence. Then what questions does the subject answer? These are the questions: "Who?"; "What?". In the sentence, the subject is expressed by a noun, a numeral, a pronoun, and also a verb in an indefinite form.

Let's consider examples of subjects, expressed by different parts of speech.

• "Mom washed the frame".

The subject is Mom. Mom is a subject who commits an action, that is, he is the main actor. In this case, the subject is expressed by the noun "mother" and answers the question: "Who?".

• "Who said that today there will be bad weather?".

"Who" in this case will be a subject, which is expressed by a questionnaire pronoun, answers the question: "Who?".

• "Eight pencils are in the box."

"Eight pencils" will be a subject, which is expressed by a numeral and a noun, answering the question: "What?".

What questions does the subject answer, which is expressed by an indefinite form of the verb? This is the question: "What?". Such use of the subject is less common.

• "To smoke - to harm health".

"Smoking" is a subject that is expressed by an indefinite form of the verb, the predicate here is expressed in the same form - "to harm." In another way, this idea sounds like this: smoking is bad for your health.