nominatives
Cases for subjects
Nominatives is the plural of nominative, a grammatical term for the case of nouns and pronouns when they serve as the subject of a sentence.
In English, case distinctions survive mainly in pronouns: I rather than me, he rather than him.
Languages like Latin, German, and Russian mark nominatives more systematically across nouns and adjectives.
Case for direct objects
- genitiveCase expressing ownership
- dativeCase showing indirect object
- ablativeRemoving by erosion
- vocativeCase for direct address
locative · instrumental · declension · inflection · morphology · agreement · gender · number
Matter under discussion
- predicateSentence's non-subject portion
- agreementShared position between parties
- concordMutual agreement, peaceful relations
- subject-verbCore sentence elements linked
clause · sentence structure · constituents · noun phrase · topic · emphasis · ellipsis · referent
One who portrays characters
theme · participants · entities · pronouns · proper nouns · sentient beings
accusative
Case for direct objects
vocative · locative · instrumental · declension · inflection · morphology · agreement · gender · number · singular
subject
Matter under discussion
- predicateSentence's non-subject portion
- agreementShared position between parties
- concordMutual agreement, peaceful relations
subject-verb · clause · sentence structure · constituents · noun phrase · topic · emphasis · ellipsis · referent · antecedent
actor
One who portrays characters
patient · theme · participants · entities · pronouns · proper nouns · sentient beings
- inflectionsinflections, plurals, conjugations, declensions, verb forms
nominativesobjectives
Intended targets or ends
obliques · genitives · ablatives · instrumentals · indirect objects