English Grammar

Nominative and Objective Case

Read the following sentence.

John broke the window.

Here John is the subject of the verb broke. When a noun or a pronoun is used as the subject of a verb, it is said to be in the nominative case.

Now read the following sentence.

He wrote a letter.

Here ‘a letter’ is the object of the verb ‘wrote’. When a noun or pronoun is used as the object of a verb, it is said to be in the objective case. A noun which comes after a preposition is also said to be in the objective case, the noun being the object of the preposition.

She sat beside him.

(Here the noun him is the object of the preposition beside. It is therefore in the objective case.)

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