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Definition of objective case in English: objective casenoun Grammar A case of nouns and pronouns serving as the object of a transitive verb or a preposition. pronouns after a preposition take the objective case Example sentencesExamples - Search the portion of English language text to locate each instance wherein the sexist word HIM is used in third person objective case.
- Place whom or what after a participle and ask a question, and the word that answers it, is in the objective case and governed by that participle.
- In conversations with junior-high-school children I notice their complete ignorance of the objective case of the relative pronoun.
- As subject of the clause introduced by the conjunction than, the pronoun must be nominative, and as object of the preposition than, the following pronoun must be in the objective case.
- Compared to possessive case, the objective case is much more limited in these dialects.
- The prescriptive grammarian will attribute the construction to a chink in the venerable distinctions between subjective and objective cases of pronouns.
- If the subject nominal were replaced by a pronoun, the pronoun would have to be in the objective case (her), not the nominative case (she).
- Thus, we have "whom", the "m" of which denotes objective case.
- The nominative, vocative, and objective cases belong in Scripture and tradition to he and him; but this minority tradition of sapiential literature and mystical devotion might be honored, preserved, and learned from by use of the female genitive case.
- Are these uses "in third person objective case"?
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