Question

Identify the noun in the nominative case in the following sentence:
The detective gifted his wife a beautiful pen which could secretly record any conversation.

• A. detective
• B. wife
• C. pen
• D. conversation

Answer 1

The correct option is A detective

Nominative case is the "subject" of the sentence i.e the person/ thing that carries out the verb/action in the sentence. In the given sentence:

The word, detective in option A, is the noun in the nominative case because this word performed the action of gifting "his wife a beautiful pen".

The words, wife, pen and conversation in options B, C and D are common nouns. However, none of these are in nominative case as neither of them perform any action.

Hence Option A is the correct answer.