nominative case

Cultural  

1. The grammatical term indicating that a noun or pronoun is the subject of a sentence or clause rather than its object. (See case and objective case.)

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Example Sentences

While she’s slurping coconut shrimp with her boyfriend, in a nice curry, she’d get a note from me explaining pronouns in the nominative case.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2016

Here are a few of them: The subject of a tensed verb must be in nominative case, such as I, he, she, and they.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Or something about: Sweet cowslips grace, the nominative case, And She's of the feminine gender.

From Amaryllis at the Fair by Jefferies, Richard

In this sentence "moneybox" is the subject of the verb, therefore, it is in the nominative case.

From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by Cox, George

The verb “applauded” has here no nominative case, whereas it ought to have been governed by the pronoun “he.”

From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by Frith, William Powell