When a noun (or, pronoun) is the agent or the Subject of a verb, it is said to be in the Nominative Case.
The nominative or Subject is the answer we set by asking the question. "who"? or "what" ? with the verb.
❒❒ Different kinds of the Nominative:
(a) The Nominative of Address or Vocative Case or Case of Address is the case used in addressing or calling a person or thing: Saral, come here; Adieu, adieu, my fatherland.
(b) Nominative Absolute is a Noun or a Pronoun which, coming before a participle is not grammatically connected with the rest of the sentence:
The sun having set, we left the place.
Dinner (being) over, the guest left the table.
❒❒ Position of the Nominative :
The Nominative is generally placed before the verb—
Ram goes.
Birds fly.
Exceptions— But it is placed after the verb (or after the auxiliary, if there be any) in the following cases :
(a) In Interrogative sentences: Is he ill? Who is he?
(b) In Imperative sentences: Go (you) home.
(c) Sometimes, in exclamation: How glad am I to see you!
(d) In Optative sentences: Long live Ram. May you be happy.
(e) In Conditional clauses without or though:
Had I been present (=If I had been present), I would have prevented him.
Were he present, he would have opposed you.
(f) When the sentence begins with here, there, or with a negative (no sooner, not only, never, no longer, little, few, etc.):
Here are five men.
There lived an old man in the village.
No sooner had he left the room than it fell down.
Not only was he present, but he delivered a lecture also.
Never have I seen such a man.
No longer are they ready to follow you.
Little did they think that they would suffer,
Few were the men present there.
(g) Sometimes, in quoting the words to another:
"I can do the work," said he.
(h) In emphatic sentences: Down went the ship.
(i) After neither and nor meaning and not:
He was not present, nor was his brother.
He could not go, neither could I.
(j) Sometimes, after the adverbs, so, the more, etc., in the second clause of the sentence:
As you sow, so shall you reap.
The more you read, the more will you learn.
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