Drops of icy rain began to fall on the basketball players. 3. In the sentence above, the subject is
a. drops.
b. rain.
c. players.

c. players.

Explanation:

The subject of any sentence is simply the receiver of the action. This can be a person, or a thing, even an idea.

To find the subject of any sentence, the question, "Who is the receiver of the action?" must be asked and when answered, you have the subject.

So, from the sentence, Drops of icy rain began to fall on the basketball players, the question must be asked, "Who are the drops of icy rain falling on?"

The answer is, the basketball players.

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the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.