nominative case
See also: nominative-case
English
Noun
nominative case (plural nominative cases)
- (grammar) The case used to indicate the subject—or agent—of a finite verb.
- (obsolete, grammar) The subject of a verb.
- 1763, Robert Lowth, A Short Introduction to English Grammar, page 133
- Every Verb, except in the Infinitive or the Participle, hath its Nominative Caſe, either expreſſed or implied [4]: as,
"Awake, ariſe, or be for ever fall'n: that is, "Awake ye, &c."
- Every Verb, except in the Infinitive or the Participle, hath its Nominative Caſe, either expreſſed or implied [4]: as,
- 1763, Robert Lowth, A Short Introduction to English Grammar, page 133
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case used to indicate the subject
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