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

If a vowel comes before us in the nominative case of an adjective, the comparison is made by magis, more, and maximè, most. 

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

Verbs impersonal have no nominative case before them, as Tædet me Grammatices, I am weary of Grammar.

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

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 George Cox