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 the noun does something it is in the nominative case and is called the subject of the verb.

From Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses by Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)

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

The nominative case of pronouns is rarely expressed, except for the sake of distinction or emphasis, as— Tu es exquisitus, tu es, You ’re a nice man, you are.

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