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

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

Such a noun is in the nominative case, and is called a predicate nominative, or a subjective complement; as, Noun: Mr. Brown is the manager.

From Business English A Practice Book by Buhlig, Rose

There is no case of the agent, as in Hindostani; the subject of all tenses of all verbs being always in the nominative case.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various