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objective case

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  1. A grammatical term indicating that a noun or pronoun is an object. (See case and nominative case.)


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Accordingly, writers in these fields place high value on neutral and objective case analysis and inferences based on the careful examination of data.

From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

Her legal team said "there is a powerful objective case as to why the mother should be genuinely in fear if the father has access to a property overbearing her own".

From BBC Oct. 6, 2021

If chalk wins out and the No. 1 overall seed Zags take the title, they will have the strongest objective case for the claim of best team ever.

From Slate Mar. 14, 2021

“Which” can be either subjective or objective case — it is used for both the subject and the object of a relative clause.

From New York Times Mar. 10, 2015

He cannot do otherwise because, as our friend, Baboo Keshub Chunder Sen, has very facetiously observed, "man is a noun in the objective case governed by the active verb woman."

From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Shib Chunder Bose

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