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objective case

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



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University officials say bias reporting systems — which rely on teams of designated administrators or offices of diversity, equity and inclusion — give minorities a clear channel to report objective cases of harassment.

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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".

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“It’s extremely hard to make an objective case that this is warranted,” said Obstfeld, now an economics professor at the University of California-Berkeley.

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“I’m not sure I’m following. And it’s ‘The Board and I.’ Me is objective case.”

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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.

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