"Nominative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... understand, and never will understand anything but the vulgarest English, and who will never in their lives achieve a properly punctuated letter, are taught such mysteries as that there are eight—I believe it is eight—sorts of nominative, and that there is (or is not) a gerundive in English, and trained month after month and year after year to perform the oddest operations, a non- analytical analysis, and a ritual called parsing that must be seen to be believed. It is no good mincing the truth about all this ...
— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells
... in each number, (that is, six of one and half a dozen of the other) but can only be put in one of them at a time. They are thus ticketed— nominative, genitive, ...
— The Comic Latin Grammar - A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue • Percival Leigh
... that Matthew speaks of "Mary the mother of James and Joses;" Mark, of "Mary the mother of James the less and of Joseph and Salome," but not "of Salome." If Mr. Laing's precise mind had looked for a moment at the text he was criticizing he would have seen that Salome is a common name in the nominative case. St. Luke does not give the names of the women at all. These points are trifling in themselves, but important as evidencing Mr. Laing's ...
— The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) • George Tyrrell
... be either from the ancient English or the low Dutch; if the one, by tradition, if the other, from the use of it by medical men. Cancrum is an odd grammatical blunder; being, in reality, nothing but the accusative of Cancer, put instead of the nominative. The latter name was, as is well known, frequently applied by the older surgeons, in a vague manner, to any terrific and unmanageable ulcer; and, in particular, it was often applied to gangrene. The error appears to have been first made by Pearson, and copied by Mr. Cooper. Compare Muys ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various
... three cases, nominative, locative and objective. The locative case denotes the relation usually expressed in English by the use of a preposition, or by the genitive, dative and ...
— History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan • Andrew J. Blackbird
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