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e placed both in subordinate clause and sentence. Subject can be focused. Subject can be questioned by interrogative pronoun. And its semantic characters are : Subject is the actor of behavior act. Subject is the main body of nature and state. Shi thought that the main difference butween subject and topic is that subject is the ingredient of grammatical structure while topic belongs to the discourse concept. The former one can be put into sentence and subordinate clause。 the latter only can stay in sentence aspect. But his method to distinguish subject to topic seems to be a bit in Chinese, there is a kind of sentence in unusual order, for example: “書小王看完了”. In Shi’s opinion, that is a topic structure for it can not be placed in a clause. But in fact, it belongs to a classical subjectpredicate sentence. “書” is either the subject, or the topic. 3 , Since Zhao Yuanren introduced ‘topoc’ into our grammar study in Chinese , the scholars in Chinese home and abroad keep going with research on topic . Li Na amp。 Thompson are the representatives on this issue. They’ve done a systematic contract to subject and topic. They said that topic means what is about in the sentence while subject is what the verb predicates。 topic can not be indefinite and generic but subject can 。 topic have to appear at the front of a sentence while subject is allowed to appear in the sentence。 there always be a pause between topic with other parts of a in Chinese , it is not necessary that the topic a