Nominative (Noun)
Meaning
The category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The noun "girl" is in the nominative case, as it serves as the subject of the sentence "The girl is singing".
- In the sentence "The manager hired him", "him" is not in the nominative, it is in the objective case, but in "He is the manager", it is.
- The teacher marked the incorrect use of the nominative case in the student's sentence, as it made the verb conjugation confusing.
- The sentence "They are going to the movies" has the pronoun "they" in the nominative, indicating that it is the subject of the action.
- The error in the translation occurred because the computer program didn't properly handle the shift from accusative to nominative in the verb conjugation.