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objective cases

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Plural of objective case

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A highly readable, easily navigable A-Z on such hot-button topics as who/whom, lie/lay, begging the question, centering on/around and, between you and me, subjective and objective cases.

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"Me," "him," "her," "us," and "them" are in the objective case, and are used as direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of a preposition.

In English, normally any noun or pronoun in objective case can be used as an object of a verb: I like cars.

His Tonto, of course, had an adhesive relationship to the objective case.

As it happens, in this case I can honestly reconcile personal feelings with a strong objective case.

When you put the sentence back together, you use "who" if the pronoun was in the nominative case and "whom" if it was in the objective case.

Her Brandy is precise, almost harrowing, in her adherence to such things as the objective case — "Whom the fuck did you kiss?" she asks.

Explain that each pair will be researching and writing a fictional objective case study or scenario about a person faced with one a particular ethical dilemma.

In my own grammatical fantasyland, every child learns about the objective case and no one utters abominations like "Janet baked a cake for Susan and I".

In French, there exists no separate word to describe the total, essential, or particular being of a person (the individual self) other than the word for "me," the objective case of "I".

Whatever the objective case for rationalising staff and functions between it and, say, the Ministry of Justice, it won't happen – and not just because Cameron only recently installed his mate Michael Gove as its secretary of state.

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