Simple Subject And Complete Subject. The simple subject is one word representing the subject; the complete subject includes descriptive words that goes with the subject. In this example, the simple subject is gentleman." (Susan Thurman and Larry Shea, The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need.
In the six examples above, the simple subjects are book , pope , butterflies , king , person , and currency. wrote a letter to his uncle. Simple subjects are subjects that have only one actor.
While the complete subject may contain modifiers (adjectives, relative clauses, and prepositional phrases), the simple subject contains only one.
In this sentence the word flowers, without the modifying words many and beautiful, is the name of that of which we think; and this word flowers is called the simple subject of the sentence, or the subject of the predicate verb.
A simple subject is a single noun or pronoun connected to a verb. Usually this means the subject does not have the word and. A simple subject contains only one word as a subject.