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

When you want to find where the concord should be, ask the following— Who? or what?—to find the nominative case to the verb.

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

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

From Quodlibet by Kennedy, John Pendleton

I, ī, pron. the nominative case singular of the first personal pronoun: the word used by a speaker or writer in mentioning himself: the object of self-consciousness, the ego.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various