Simple And Complete Subjects
Many Beautiful Flowers Grow In The Woods
In this sentence the word flowers, without the modifying words many and beautiful, is the name of that of which we think; and this word flowers is called the simple subject of the sentence, or the subject of the predicate verb.
The word flowers, together with the words which modify it, is called the complete subject of the sentence.
Flowers is the simple subject of the sentence, and many beautiful flowers is the complete subject.
The simple subject of a sentence, or the subject of the predicate verb, is the noun, pronoun, phrase, or clause, which, without modifiers, is the bare name of that of which we think.
The complete subject of a sentence is the simple subject with all its modifiers.