Transcript Pronoun Case - Nominative Case #79

PRONOUN CASE:
NOMINATIVE CASE
Mini-Lesson #79
From the UWF Writing Lab’s 101 Grammar Mini-Lessons
Series
Within a given sentence, nominative case pronouns (I,
we, he, she, and they) take the place of a noun.

Nominative case pronouns occur in the following positions:

As the subject of the verb


In the predicate after some form of the verb to be


The caller was thought to be I. (I renames the caller.)
As an appositive for a subject


This is she.
When to be has no subject and is followed by a pronoun


Both the professor and I called Jane.
We women must stick together.
If the subject of a sentence is compound, delete and and the
other subject to determine which pronoun to use

Mike and I have gone fishing. (I have gone fishing.)