It is just what it says: the subject alone, stripped from an other words associated with it.
Ex.
The fancy red sports car in my garage is broken.
complete subject = fancy red sports car
simple subject = car
The best kind of book is, a book that makes you want to continue to read. Where your imagination runs off with different ideas of the story. When you feel your part of story line or you can relate to the characters.
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The Answer should be Imperative.
The reason is because a simile has like or as in the sentence and a metaphor is referring to an object in the sentence and a rhetorical question is asking a question so those are wrong.
The part of the excerpt that supports the claim that paine believed the human cost of the colonist armed struggle against the british well worth the outcome is : When Paine use empirical evidence to support his claim that Howe's army had decisively defeated the continental army.
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