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.)