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

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

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

From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by Frith, William Powell

Raven, as a writer of English, paused to make a mental note that, in cases of extreme emotion, the nominative case, after the verb to be, is practically no good.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice