Examine these sentences:
1. John threw a stone.
2. the horse kicked the boy.
In sentence 1, the noun John is the Subject. It is the
answer to the question. “who threw a stone?”
The group of words
threw a stone in the Predicate.
The Predicate contains the verb threw.
What did John throw?
- A stone. Stone is the object
which John threw. The noun stone is therefore called the Object.
In sentence 2, the noun horse is the Subject. It is the
answer to the question, ‘Who kicked the boy?”
The noun boy is the Object. It is the answer to the
question, ‘Whom did the horse kick?”
When a noun
(or pronoun is used as the Subject of a verb, it is said to be in the Nominative Case.
When a noun (pronoun) is used as the Object of a verb, it is
said to be in the Objective (orAccusative)
Case
Note- To find the Nominative, put Who? or
what? Before the verb.
To find the Accusative, put whom? or Whom? Before the verb
and it subject.
A noun which cones after a preposition is also to be in the
Accusative Cases; as,
The book is on the
desk.
The noun desk is in the Accusative Case, governed by the
preposition in.
