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This paper delves into the properties of the subject and accordingly suggests teaching implications. The subject seemingly appears to be explained in connection with Case theories and Ɵ-roles. This causes much ado in teaching the subject to EFL students. In this paper, I examine some major properties of the subject. First, the subject does not necessarily carry nominative Case; sometimes it takes some other Case when there is no Case assigner available within a clause that it belongs to. Second, agent is not a sole Ɵ-role assigned to the subject.; the subject is not always the doer of an action. Finally, the subject position can be filled by either expletives without any meaningful content or PRO, an empty category. Conclusively I argue that the subject is purely a syntactic concept and should be determined by its structural position. Case and Ɵ-roles are simply peripheral to its syntactic account and accordingly suggest teaching implications appropriate to secondary school students.