We explain what the core of the subject and the predicate are in a sentence, their importance and various examples.
Core of the subject and predicate
In the analysis syntactic of the prayers In Spanish, a distinction is made between two internal structural instances, which are broadly: the subject (who performs the action), and the predicate (the action taken).
Each one of them contains a set of the elements of the sentence, organizing them according to their belonging to one or another sense. Among these elements are the syntactic nuclei of the subject and the predicate.
The syntactic core is the word that serves as the axis of the phrase to which it belongs and therefore determines its behavior and characteristics. In these nuclei resides the greatest load of meaning in each case:
- The nucleus of the subject, which is always part of a noun or pronominal phrase, is usually either a noun or a pronoun. For example, in “Miguel loves beer”, the subject's nucleus is Miguel; while in "He loves beer", the core of the subject is He.
- The core of the predicate, which is always part of a verb phrase, is the main verb of the sentence, the one that is conjugated according to the sentence subject. For example, in “Miguel loves beer”, the core of the predicate will be loves.
Note that there are also occasions when the subject is tacit, or the verb elided from the sentence, but they can be inferred from the context of the case, so that they can be identified.
Obviously, the nuclei are not the only thing that makes up each phrase, but there are also a variable number of complements, both of the subject and of the verb. However, the identification of the nuclei is the fundamental and main step (after identifying the subject and predicate) for the parsing of any sentence.
Core Subject and Predicate Examples
Here are a series of examples of this syntactic breakdown operation:
- Sentence: My French cousin learned to dance cumbia.
Subject: My french cousin
Core of the subject: cousin
Predicate: learned to dance cumbia
Core of the predicate: learned
- Prayer: Parents today do not understand their children.
Subject: Today's parents
Core of the subject: fathers
Predicate: they don't understand their children
Core of the predicate: they understand
- Prayer: I have a lot of headache.
Subject: Me (tacit subject)
Predicate: I have a bad headache
Core of the predicate: I have
- Prayer: The computer is still on.
Subject: Computer
Core of the subject: computer
Predicate: is still on
Core of the predicate: this
- Prayer: You weren't dumber than anyone.
Subject: You
Core of the subject: You
Predicate: you're not dumber than anyone
Core of the predicate: ages