objective 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
As the object of “letting,” this should have been in the objective case: “a friend and me.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2014
The true expression is, that the preposition of followed by an objective case is equivalent in many instances, to the genitive case of the classical languages.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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