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because the sentence should begin with predicate or object
NP, the subject must appear again in full form. Subject
omission following its introduction in stories and long
conversations is governed by strict rules, either contextual
or syntactic; it is obligatory. This is discussed in
Chapter 4.
However, the subject is necessary if the omission of it
makes the sentence unclear. For this reason, the subject of
a nominal sentence with an NP predicate is not omitted,
unless one is responding to a question in which the subject
is mentioned. A third person subject is not omitted if the
context is not clear. These types of sentences are
frequently found in conversations consisting of two or three
sentences.
Subjects in Acehnese sentences can be placed at the
beginning or at the end of the sentence, that is, when the
speaker wants to highlight the predicate. In sentences in
which the predicate is an intransitive verb, an adjective, a
PP, or an adverb, it is not difficult to find the subject;
the subject is the NP before or after this predicate. But in
sentences with transitive predicates, which may contain more
than one NP, or when the predicate is also an NP, it is not
always easy to tell which NP is the subject. In the case of
sentences with transitive predicates, in some cases, the
subject is the NP that the verb or adjective agrees with,
provided that the NP is not preceded by the preposition le.
'by.'