Mark 7:26 The other environment for a predicate nominative is a verbless clause where two or more nominative elements are juxtaposed, routinely expressing a relation of BEING, whether descriptive or equative. John 4:24 All this talk of subjects and predicate nominatives both being in the nominative case understandably leads to a question: How do you know which is which? Why, for instance, did I say, in the last example, that ὁ θεός was the subject and not the predicate nominative? A principle