When to Use Nominative?

The nominative case is used for sentence subjects. The subject is the person or thing that does the action. For example, in the sentence, “the girl kicks the ball”, “the girl” is the subject. The accusative case is for direct objects.

What is nominative used for?

The Nominative is the naming case, used for the subject of the sentence. Nominative nouns can be singular: Alfred is my name.

How do you know if a sentence is nominative?

If the noun is the subject of the sentence (it is doing the action in the sentence), then it belongs in the nominative case.