You know, your friends getting married It has got to change things.

[Tae-Bbong-E]

Hi
I watched this subtitle in the television sitcom "Friends".

• You know, your friends getting married It has got to change things.



In this sentence, what is underlined NP in it? Object or Subject?

 

[emsr2d2]

I'm not a grammarian but as far as I can tell, "your friends getting married" is the subject.

[The act of] Your friends getting married has got to change things [for you]. I don't think the subtitles have helped by apparently ending the sentence after "married" (I say "apparently" because I can't see a full stop, but the next letter is a capital suggesting they think it's a new sentence).

 

[GoesStation]

It should be punctuated this way: You know, your friends getting married — it has got to change things.

The speaker probably said it's got to change things.

 

[emsr2d2]

Take care when transcribing things on the forum. The subtitle you showed in the screenshot clearly says "It's" but you typed "It has". The error doesn't make any difference to the answer to your question but that's not the point - my point is that you need to make sure you copy things exactly.

 

[probus]

Subtitles are an unreliable source for good English usage, especially nowadays when a lot of subtitles are generated by computers.

 

[jutfrank]

It isn't a sentence at all (it's just a noun phrase) and so it isn't subject or object because there's no verb. The part You know shouldn't be understood as introducing a sentence—this is just a discourse marker and so should be analysed as a separate element. The speaker goes on to produce a grammatical sentence where the subject pronoun It refers to the underlined noun phrase of the previous utterance.

 

[Tarheel]

Hi
I saw this subtitle in the television sitcom "Friends".

• You know, your friends getting married It has got to change things.

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In this sentence, what is underlined NP in it? Object or Subject?

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[Tdol]

Subtitles. In. A. World. Of. One-word. Sentences.

The old rules are not always being followed.

 

[Rover_KE]

Don't expect perfect grammar in subtitles—their primary function is to help the hard of hearing.

 

[probus]

Hard of hearing? I guess so, but I think there should be a law requiring any video featuring Glaswegians to have subtitles, and my hearing is fine.