The identification of subject and object has been one of the major grammatical issues in Chinese linguistics, and that although many Chinese linguists have put forward various solutions to it, this problem has not yet been resolved satisfactorily. Chao’s A Grammar of Spoken Chinese (1969, p.70), for example, points out that it is appropriate to associate topic with subject, and comment with predicate, since “in Chinese, the proportion of applicability of the actor-action meanings,…., is still very low, perhaps not much higher than 50 per cent,…”More straightforwardly, what he indicates is that by employing the idea of word order parameter, anything that precedes the verb in a sentence can be regarded as the subject of the sentence, while anything that follows the subject as the predicate. In this paper, I would like first to examine the approaches put forward by the following linguists: Li jinxi, Wang li, Y.R. Chao, and Li & Thompson, and second, to bring up a suggestion concerning the treatment of the issue and, furthermore, to argue its applicability.