objective case
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Remember that whom is in the objective case.
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
We needed the objective case for the object of the preposition “for.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2014
In this sentence, the first but is a verb in the imperative mood; the second is a noun in the objective case.
From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
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