English Grammar For Dummies. Woods Geraldine

you-understood is still the subject. In sentence C, fell is the verb and Ella is the subject.

      Searching for the Subject in Questions

      Does everyone love grammar? Don't answer that! I started this section with that sentence not to check attitudes toward grammar (I'd rather not know) but to illustrate the subject's favorite location in a question. Most questions in English are formed by adding a helping verb – do, does, will, can, should, and so forth – to a main verb. (For everything you need to know about helping verbs, turn to Chapter 2.) The subject is generally tucked between the helping verb and the main verb, but you don't have to bother remembering that fascinating bit of trivia. To locate the subject in a question, simply “pop the question” the same way you do for any other sentence. Here's how to attack the first sentence of this paragraph: