logical subject

noun

: the subject of a sentence that expresses the actual agent of an expressed or implied action (as father in "it is your father speaking") or that is the thing about which something is otherwise predicated (as to do right in "it is sometimes hard to do right")

called also real subject

—distinguished from grammatical subject

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