subject
noun
that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc..
subjectless
-
a word derived from
subject.
Example Sentences
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Big, bold, brightly colored shapes keep turning corners in the most subjectless, unliterary and unsensual art that the 20th century has up to the present produced.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most verbs that take subjectless complements, such as try in Alice tried to calm down, are governed by an ironclad rule that forces the overt subject to be identical to the missing subject.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
In this passage we have a good illustration of the mode in which the writer introduces his quotations with the subjectless "he says."
From Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels
At first inarticulate, confused, they dripped strings of mere words; expletives, exclamations, detached phrases, broken clauses, sentences that started with subjects and trailed, unpredicated, to stupid silence; sentences beginning subjectless and hobbling to futile conclusion.
From Angel Island by Inez Haynes Gillmore
Sick of his subjectless and dragging conversation, she gladly followed Lady Dundas to the drawing-room, where, opening her knitting case, she took her station in a remote corner.
From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter
