objective case

These days the objective case is beating out the nominative in other areas as well.

Note that the plural forms are identical to those for the objective case.

The most important case markers are subjective and objective case.

Similarly, who in the objective case appears to have been on the threshold of acceptance into standard English for more than three hundred years.

The pronoun must be the objective case him.

The objective case serves this purpose with negative verbs.

It corresponds to the objective case in English.

"Instead of giving the impression that you're emotionally committed to something, present information that makes an objective case for what it is you want."

The word is a subject, not an object; the word me is the pronoun to use in the objective case.

Personal names take the suffix -to in the objective case, zero in the subjective.

Him is the objective case of the second-person male pronoun and thus used as the object of the preposition to.

He pointed out that purists would demand he as predicate nominative, not him, which is in the objective case.

You also tried to release the objective case from its thraldom to the preposition, and it is written that servants should obey their masters.

Object pronouns in English take the objective case, sometimes called the oblique case or object case.

The Case of the Lost Objective Case.

In the following example, tone alone distinguishes possessive from objective case of the 1SG personal pronoun:

"It's the objective case."

In English, the objects of prepositions are always in the objective case (where such case is available: i.e. pronouns).

Since this usage is formal and since the objective case form whom formally serves as the object of a preposition, it would be unusual to use who.

"When somebody's 77 you better be darn sure when you're the employer that you have a solid, objective case," Mr. Hillman said.

Later conventions removed the apostrophe from subjective and objective case forms and added it after the -s in possessive case forms.

Therefore, positeth the maven, we have an example of a pretty fair writer of almost four centuries ago using the objective case for a predicate nominative.

The accusative case (also called objective case) is used to mark direct and sometimes indirect objects, is marked by a suffix -ni:

The term is occasionally contrasted with the objective case, which is used for objects of verbs and of prepositions, but not for genitive relations between nouns.

However, since English has lost noun inflection and now relies on word order, using the objective case me after the verb be like other verbs seems very natural to modern speakers.