Summary of El sujeto de una oración

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In this video, it is explained that the subject of a sentence is the person, animal, or thing that performs the action of the verb. The video goes on to say that sometimes the subject is omitted, but that it can be deduced by looking at the verb.

• 00:00:00 In this video, I explain that the subject of a sentence is the person, animal, or thing that performs the action of the verb. Always, the verb gives the subject in the predicate. So, the person, animal, or thing that performs the action of the verb is the subject of the sentence. Three questions are important to discovering the subject of a sentence. The first question is "who?" The second question is "when?" The third question is "which of these three?" When answering these questions, you will need to use the "which of these three?" question. For example, if you are saying "Andrés is my cousin," the answer to the third question would be "who?" And the answer to the second question would be "when?" And the answer to the first question would be "which of these three?" In this example, the answer to the first question is "who?" The answer to the second question is "when?" And the answer to the third question is "who?" And so, Andrés would be the subject of the sentence. Sometimes, the subject is omitted. This is called the "sujeto omitido." In this sentence, "fútbol" is
• 00:05:00 In this video, the subject of a sentence is explained. This is done by writing it in parentheses and then explaining it at the end. The subject of a sentence is the word or phrase that is not the subject of the verb. In this example, "el sujeto de una oración" (the subject of the sentence) is "omitido pero lo podemos deducir entonces." (We can deduce that it is "omitido" because it is not the subject of the verb.)