objective case

Cultural

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

We needed the objective case for the object of the preposition “for.”

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2014

For a verb to be capable of governing an objective case, it must be a verb signifying an action affecting an object; which is not the case here.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

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