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“What is a subject?”

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Me: …and you put your claim number in the subject line [of an email]
Her: What is the subject?

What I said: That *is* the subject.
What I should’ve said: The subject is the part of the sentence that is acting upon the object; in essence, it is the “doer” of the sentence.

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