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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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Example Sentences

Substantives which end in a vowel in Anglo-Saxon, in the nominative case, take a final -e in Chaucer, in the nom.

The Frenchman uses moi in the nominative case when je would be inharmonious.

The verb “applauded” has here no nominative case, whereas it ought to have been governed by the pronoun “he.”

This form of the personal pronoun is properly used in the nominative case only where increased emphasis is aimed at.

Some intransitive verbs require a predicate noun or pronoun in the nominative case, or an adjective, to complete their meaning.

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nominative absolutenominative of address