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Those semi-notional words which serve to connect two
words or clauses (prepositions, conjunctions) will be regarded as
a separate part of the sentence, connectives.
Those semi-notional words that are used to specify various
words or word combinations (articles, particles) will be called
specifiers.
Finally, words in a sentence, with zero connections,
referring to the sentence as a whole and known as parenthetical
elements, are a distinct part of the sentence.

2. The subject

The subject is the independent member of a two-member
predication, containing the person component of predicativity.
Both members of the predication he sleeps contain the meaning
of "person". But in sleeps this meaning depends on that of he and
is due to grammatical combinability. This accounts for the fact
that sleeps cannot make a sentence alone, though it contains all
the components of predicativity. Sleeps likewise depends on he as
far as the meaning of "number" is concerned. The meanings of
"person" and "number" in he are lexico- grammatical and
independent.
The subject is usually defined as a word or a group of
words denoting the thing we speak about. This traditional
definition is rather logical than grammatical. The subject of a
simple sentence can be a word, a syntactical word-morpheme (in
English — there, it) or a complex. As a word it can belong to
different parts of speech, but it is mostly a noun or a pronoun,
e.g.:Fame is the thirst of youth (G. Byron). Nothing endures but
personal qualities (W. Whitman). To see is to believe
In Ukrainian the subject is most frequently expressed by
the nominative case of the noun or personal pronoun. Other parts
of speech can be used in the function of the subject only when
they are substantivized. The function of the compound subject is

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