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    Default Re: is a small planet

    Ratoncolorao, you might find this thread interesting:
    http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/as...sentences.html
    We've been discussing subject/object functions in an English sentence, as well as word order. We've also touched upon inversion.

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    Default Re: is a small planet

    Quote Originally Posted by ratóncolorao View Post
    However, the lack of the name of the planet in the text, does make a difference, at least from my point of view.
    I said that it does not make a difference grammatically. I meant that there was still a grammatical subject.

    In post #6 I said that the subject was a small planet, Fliturne. I shoud have said that the subject was only a small planet. (As this small planet was Fliturne, it doesn't really matter.) If we omit Fliturne, even if we omit small, there is still a subject.

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