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I will be accused of being picky, picky, picky. What describes who or what a sentence is about is the sentence. Take the sentence "Jane bought dinner." What is the sentence about? It could be about Jane. You know Jane. She NEVER picks up the tab. But guess what happened Saturday? The sentence could be about buying. Jane preferes to cook, and she's good at it. But when Fred offered to cook dinner, Jane stepped in and bought dinner instead. Or the sentence could be about... you know.

You may be asking about the subject of a sentence. Yes, usually the subject of something like a book is what the book is about. But subject as used here is a technical term, and not necessarily the substance of a sentence. In the sentence above Jane is the subject. Jane is the one who performs the action of the predicate.

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