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subjective case
noun
The case used to indicate the subject – or agent – of a finite verb.
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None of them gets the subjective case right, and they have all replaced the comma with the word like.
Whenever possible, test scores are included as well as subjective case reports.
Wherever possible, test scores are included and subjective case reports given.
Good deals with the hard case previewed in his title in this way: a noun following the verb to be formally calls for the subjective case (like I, he, she, as in: "Who's there? It is I," not me).
Yet still the club have not officially retreated an inch from their repeated reaction to the judgment, claiming Evra's accusation that Suárez racially abused him was entirely false, that the FA's commission found it "ultimately unsubstantiated" and so reached a "highly subjective case against Suárez".
The big shock here, according to the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Eugene Robinson, is not that a Harvard professor misused the subjective case ("who" for "whom") and inelegantly ended a sentence with a preposition; it is, rather, that Gates belongs to an elite enclave beyond the sergeant's experience or imagination.
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First, Congress purposefully substituted the mechanical formula of § 1563(a)(2) for the subjective, case-by-case analysis that had previously prevailed.
The decisions "come down to very subjective case-by-case situations". It's a lot of legalese that Jones says could be avoided if she and FCC Chairman Michael Powell simply could sit down and talk and vibe and build.
The tension between objective experimental purity and subjective, case-based clinical judgement is often acknowledged by writers within and critics of the EBM movement [ 5 – 8, 11, 13 ], but there is a significant (and as-yet largely unaddressed) research agenda to unpack and explore this tension systematically at both a philosophical and an empirical level.
Although we have provided specific ad hoc definitions for pneumonia and for aspiration risk; these are still somewhat subjective making case ascertainment challenging.
It's very subjective and case specific, site specific".
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