What is the subject in this sentence?
Of the various impacts, the most direct are the increases.
What is the subject in the above sentence?
Is the subject "the increases"?
I think it is, because the verb "are" is in the plural form.
If so, is that sentence kind of a subject-subject complement inversion case?
And is "impact" implied right after "the most direct"? as in "the most direct (impact) are..."?
Top answer
Of the various impacts, the most direct are the increases. The subject is the noun phrase "the most direct". The NP is a 'fused' modifier-head construction, where "direct" is understood to mean "direct impacts", which is of course plural, hence the plural verb "are".
- Of the various impacts, the most direct are the increases.
- The subject is the noun phrase "the most direct".
- The NP is a 'fused' modifier-head construction, where "direct" is understood to mean "direct impacts", which is of course plural, hence the plural verb "are".
- e.
- the two functions are combined, or fused, into the single word "direct".
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Of the various impacts, the most direct are the increases.
The subject is the noun phrase "the most direct".
The NP is a 'fused' modifier-head construction, where "direct" is understood to mean "direct impacts", which is of course plural, hence the plural verb "are".
It's called a fused modifier-head because the adjective "direct" serves as modifier and as head at
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