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SUBJECT CASE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does subject case mean?
• SUBJECT CASE (noun)
The noun SUBJECT CASE has 1 sense:
1. the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb
Familiarity information: SUBJECT CASE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
nominative; nominative case; subject case
Hypernyms ("subject case" is a kind of...):
case; grammatical case (nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence)
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