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

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

Hence again the frequent unauthorized insertion of a nominative case to determine the sense: e.g. ὁ ἄγγελος “the angel,” xvi.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William

He will be known by no other name at sea, for when the jolly tars are in the nominative case, the designation they give a man always clings to him.

From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by Yellott, George