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
As the object of “letting,” this should have been in the objective case: “a friend and me.”
From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2014
Preposition, defined, 49; phrase introduced by, 52; followed by the objective case, 66, 119; and the conjunction, 116 ff.; the wrong, 119; necessary, 119.
From Business English A Practice Book by Buhlig, Rose
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