good books build both
and
character
,
books
indicates the subject of
thought and is therefore, in the nominative case,
mind and character
indicate the
objects of thought, the things acted upon, and are, therefore in the objective case.
You may reserve the order and thus the cases, if you wish:
Both mind and
character are built by good books
. Now,
mind and character
are in the
nominative case, and
books
is the objective case.
A noun is in the nominative case when it is
subject
of a verb, as
the boy
struggled
in which
boy
is subject of
struggled.
A noun is in the nominative case when it is used as predicate nominative,
that is, when it follows the predicate but means the same things as the subject or
closely explains or describes it, as
Buffalo Bill was a great marksman,
in a which
marksman
is the predicate nominative.
Other names for this construction are
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