21. In perfect tenses for transitive and ditransitive verbs, while in other situations agents appear in the nominative case . 22. They are usually not matched with the nominative case , which is primarily used as the subject in sentences. 23. If the subject did not intend to do something, the subject noun is in the nominative case instead. 24. :Predicate adjectives would normally be in the nominative case , but yes, they are declined for number and gender. 25. The same happens to any syntactic constituent that stood in the nominative case before passing into the indirect speech. 26. If there is no article, a tonal change signifies nominative case , although this is not represented in the orthography. 27. As in example 2, the subject is taking the dative case where normally we would expect to see nominative case . 28. Commonly, Greek male surnames end in-s, which is the common ending for Greek masculine proper nouns in the nominative case . 29. They are also usually numbered accordingly : the nominative case is the first case, the genitive the second, and so on. 30. In the first sentence ( present continuous tense ) the agent is in the nominative case " ( k'ac'i ) ."