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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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 principal use of the nominative case is as subject of the sentence; as, Noun:      The business is prosperous.

From Business English A Practice Book by Rose Buhlig

The nominative case is used in the following ways: 1.

From Business English A Practice Book by Rose Buhlig

The nominative case of pronouns is rarely expressed, except for the sake of distinction or emphasis, as— Tu es exquisitus, tu es, You ’re a nice man, you are.

From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by John Leech