nominative case in English

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1. After preposition the objective case of pronouns should be used, but he used the nominative case.

2. Example sentences with "Adjectivals", translation memory WikiMatrix For Classical (Greco-Roman) names, the adjectival form is normally derived from the genitive case, which may differ from the nominative case used in English for the noun form.

3. An appositive adjective is added to its noun to explain it, like a noun in Apposition.: A noun clause may also be used in Apposition to a noun to explain its meaning.: Hence a substantive in Apposition with a nominative is in the nominative case.: A substantive in Apposition with an objective is itself in the objective case.: One word is in Apposition to another when it is placed near to it

4. We quote Professor Moule: “In John 20:28 Ho kýrios mou kai ho theós mou [that is, My Lord and my God], it is to be noted that a substantive [like God] in the Nominative case used in a vocative sense [in address to Jesus] and followed by a possessive [of me] could not be anarthrous [that is, without the definite article the] . . . ; the article [the] before theós may, therefore, not be significant. . . . the use of the article [the] with a virtual Vocative (compare John 20:28 referred to above, and 1 Peter 2:18, Colossians 3:18ff.) may also be due to Semitic idiom.”—Pages 116, 117, of An Idiom-Book of New Testament Greek, by C.