What Are the Object and Subject of a Sentence?
Think back to some of the most recognizable lines from Hollywood films. Often, brevity increases impact. The line "Nobody puts Baby in a corner" (Patrick Swayze making hearts flutter in the 1987 romance Dirty Dancing) is a clear example of basic sentence structure, with a subject ("Nobody"), a verb ("puts"),
and an object ("Baby"). Subjects and objects are two essential parts of sentences, but sometimes, they can be tricky to identify. Every complete sentence must have a subject. The subject is the person, place, or thing performing the action, and it is almost always a noun or a pronoun. Even...


