Sentence examples for nominative form from inspiring English sources

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Heartburn, in its current extended sense, is a result of stress, a nominative form about an illness or state of being with such staying power that it can no longer be labeled a vogueword.

For nonprofessional writers, the most common relative-pronoun lapse seems to be the use of "who," the subject or nominative form, in places where standard usage requires the objective form "whom".

If, for example, a Goidelic nominative form *sindos kattos koilos "the thin cat" is reconstructed, this will give Old Irish in catt coel after the loss of final syllables, but the genitive *sindī kattī koilī "of the thin cat" will give in chaitt choíl with changed initial consonants.

The runologists appreciate the appearance of the nominative form Grikkia ("Greece") as it is otherwise unattested while other case forms are found on a number of runestones.

Later, A.P. MacLeod noted that the Gaelic snatha which has a secondary meaning of "grief", and "trouble" —may be a nominative form of the genitive snaithe, and thus may equate to Ölvir's byname.

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Today, person is marked in French principally by pronouns derived mainly from the Latin emphatic nominative forms of the personal pronoun: J'aime /Ʒɛm/ 'I love,' tu aimes /tyɛm/ 'you love' from (ego) amo, (tu) amas.

The 3rd person singular and plural nominative forms, ngonggega and bogo, are labeled 'rare' because they are gradually becoming disused.

They must be prescribed on dedicated nominative forms.

In Hindi the possessive is in the oblique (non-nominative) form, as is the noun after which it occurs; but in the plural, only the noun has the oblique form.

For example, the nominative plural form ending in -āsas (e.g., devāsas 'gods') was already less frequent than -ās in the Ṛgveda and continued to lose ground later; in the Brāhmaṇas, -ās (e.g., devās) is the normal form.

For example, the nominative singular form agni-s 'fire,' corresponds with the genitive singular agne-s 'of fire,' the nominative plural agnay-as 'fires,' and the instrumental plural agni-bhis 'with, by means of fires,' with differing vowels in the second syllable.

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