... the subject of a sentence, except in a couple of rare cases left over from ancient languages, and barely evident in the English, such the vocative, the explicative, the imperative. Even the interrogative assumes a unconstricted pronoun as a place holder, what, who, where (in the locative case) you just can’t do it, to our way of thinking the sentence won’t make sense. Thus ‘running down the road’...

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