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.
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Nominative case pronouns occur in the following positions:
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As the subject of the verb
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In the predicate after some form of the verb to be
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The caller was thought to be I. (I renames the caller.)
As an appositive for a subject
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This is she.
When to be has no subject and is followed by a pronoun
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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
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Mike and I have gone fishing. (I have gone fishing.)