Question

What are the different types of nominative and objective cases of nouns?

Answer 1

Hint: A nominative case is that case used in which a verb's subject is a noun or a pronoun. A nominative-case noun or pronoun has to agree with its verb in number. If a noun or pronoun appears and behaves as a grammatical object in a statement, then it is said to be in the objective case.

Complete answer:
The association of a noun or pronoun to the other words in that statement is expressed by grammatical cases in English. In English, there are four primary cases.
The nominative noun can come in these forms:
A sentence’s subject, a clause’s subject, a subject complement
Now we can explain each form in the nominative case;
i) A sentence’s subject: The person or thing that is responsible for performing an action verb. Example: Rekha baked the pizza. Here in the sentence, ‘Rekha’ is performing the action ‘baked’, so ‘Rekha’ is the subject or nominative case.
ii) A clause’s subject: A clause is when a partial sentence is formed by a group of terms that act as the subject and verb. Here again, the person or thing doing the action is the clause’s subject. Example: Rekha baked the pizza that Pooja likes. Here in the sentence, ‘Pooja’ is the subject of the clause ‘that Pooja likes’, so ‘Pooja’ is the nominative case.
iii) A subject complement: It is the noun that comes after the verb to restate the sentence’s subject word, the verb here is a linking verb that links the subject and the subject complement noun. Example: Pizza is Pooja’s favourite. Here in the sentence, the subject ‘pizza’ and the subject complement ‘favourite’ are linked so ‘favourite’ becomes the nominative case.

Next, the objective noun can come in these forms:
A verb’s direct object, a verb’s indirect object, a preposition’s object, an object complement
i) A verb’s direct object: The thing or person affected by the verb’s action. Example: Rekha made the pizza. Here in the sentence ‘pizza’ is the direct object so it becomes the objective case.
ii) A verb’s indirect object: The thing or person indirectly affected by the verb’s action. Example: Rekha made Pooja a pizza. Here in the sentence ‘Pooja’ is the indirect object hence it becomes the objective case.
iii) A preposition’s object: It is the noun that comes after the preposition that joins it to another word that has a relation with the verb. Example: Rekha made a pizza for Pooja. Here in the sentence ‘Pooja’ is the preposition’s object, the preposition is ‘for’ and ‘Jim’ is the objective case.
iv) An object complement: It will be the noun that comes after the direct object which will re-emphasize the direct object. Example: Rekha made Pooja’s favourite pizza, chicken. Here in the sentence, the noun ‘chicken’ is the object complement or objective case since it restates ‘pizza’.


Note: A noun in English does not change form in any of these nominative or objective cases. On the other hand, a pronoun changes form depending on the case required. "You", "I", "she", "he", "we", "it", "who", "they" and "whoever" are the nominative pronouns.