nominative case

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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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nominative case

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

The nominative case always agrees with the verb; the people are the verb, we're the nominative case.

From Quodlibet by Kennedy, John Pendleton

I, ī, pron. the nominative case singular of the first personal pronoun: the word used by a speaker or writer in mentioning himself: the object of self-consciousness, the ego.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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

From Amaryllis at the Fair by Jefferies, Richard