In Indo-Aryan languages, the direct case is the name given to a grammatical case used with all three core relations: the agent of transitive verbs, the patient of transitive verbs, and the agent of intransitive verbs. The Indo-Aryan languages (within the context of Indo-European studies also Indic) are a branch of the Indo-European language family In Grammar, the case of a Noun or Pronoun indicates its Grammatical function in a greater Phrase or Clause; such as the In Linguistics, a grammatical agent is the Participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation In Syntax, a transitive verb is a Verb that requires both a subject and one or more objects Some examples of sentences with transitive verbs In Linguistics, a grammatical patient is the participant of a situation upon whom an action is carried out In Grammar, an intransitive Verb does not take an object. In more technical terms an intransitive verb has only one argument (its subject

Such a case may also be called the nominative case, but some linguists reserve that term for cases that cover other roles or combinations of roles. The nominative case is a Grammatical case for a Noun, which generally marks the subject of a Verb, as opposed to its object or other

References

• Blake, Barry J. [1994] (2001). Case, Second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.