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

The nominative case comes before the verb, as the horse does before the cart, the “lieutenant before the ancient,” and the superintendant of police before the inspector.

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

The subject is always in the nominative case.

From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by Cox, George

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 Buhlig, Rose