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nominative case

  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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Here are a few of them: The subject of a tensed verb must be in nominative case, such as I, he, she, and they.

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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.

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“I,” “he,” “she,” “we,” and “they” are in the nominative case, and function as subjects of a sentence or a clause.

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The old prescription requiring the nominative case after the verb “to be” has long been discredited as a Latin construction mistakenly applied to English.

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The nominative case always agrees with the verb; the people are the verb, we're the nominative case.

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