What's the difference between a subject and a subject phrase? Can you give us an example.

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http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/partse.html

At this website, you can choose from the list on the left for the topic(s) you need to learn about.

I'll give you an example, using this sentence:
Three little old ladies met for tea.

The simple subject is "ladies" but the subject phrase -- also known as the complete subject -- is "Three little old ladies"
The subject is the noun or pronoun that is doing the action.

Examples:

Joe volunteered to help the baseball team.

The most magnificent sight in the world is the Grand Canyon.

A subject phrase is a gerund or infinitive phrase that tells what is doing the action.

Winning eight gold medals was his dream.

Check this site.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/627/01/

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