nominative

• It is called “Persecuting Bishops.” “Is Bishops in that title a nominative or an accusative?” grimly inquired a living prelate, when the present writer was extolling the essay so named. —  Sydney Smith
• The New Scientist gave it the name nominative determinism - the idea that there is a link between people's names and their occupation. —  CUANAS
• The s of the nominative is frequently dropped in the dialect of the Gâthâs, or changed into o. Hence we might venture to doubt whether it is necessary to give to the character 1780 of M. Julien's list, which generally has the value of ta, a second value sta. —  Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion
• Strange! there was hardly any insinuation against this coinage which they would not tolerate and even applaud in their daily papers; and yet, if the same thing were said without ambiguity to their faces--nominative case verb and accusative being all in their right places, and doubt impossible--they would consider themselves very seriously and justly outraged, and accuse the speaker of being unwell I never could understand, neither can I do so now, why a single currency should not suffice them; it would seem to me as though all their dealings would have been thus greatly simplified; but I was met with a look of horror if ever I dared to hint at it. —  Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals
• In English we have three cases,--nominative possessive, and objective; but, in nouns, the nominative and objective have the same form, and only the possessive case shows a change of ending, by adding ’s or the apostrophe. —  Latin for Beginners

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