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 .)

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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