Subject Case (Noun)
Meaning
The category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- In English, nouns do not have distinct forms for different grammatical cases, with the exception of the possessive case and the distinction between subject and object forms in some pronouns.
- The subject case is often associated with nominative case in more complex grammatical systems.
- Some languages retain distinct subject and object forms, known as subject_case and object_case or nominative and accusative forms.
- In linguistics, the term subject_case is sometimes used interchangeably with the term nominative_case.
- A subject_case pronoun typically appears before the verb in a clause or sentence.