Question

Which word is the subject of the sentence? In the elm tree cawed one large black crow. A. tree B. an understood you C. crow D. black

Answer 1

Actually, the crow is the subject!


the structure of the sentence is like this:

In the elm tree (where? we can substitute this phrase with "there")

cawed - this is the verb of the sentence

one large black crow - this is the full subject of the sentence, let's substitute this sentence with "it"

then we have a sentence "there cawed it" - now it's easier to see that the "it" must be a subject.

then in the phrase

one large black crow

the head is Crow - that's the correct answer - and the rest of the words are adjectives to give more information about this Crow.