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objective casenoun GrammarA case of nouns and pronouns serving as the object of a transitive verb or a preposition: pronouns after a preposition take the objective case...- The prescriptive grammarian will attribute the construction to a chink in the venerable distinctions between subjective and objective cases of pronouns.
- If the subject nominal were replaced by a pronoun, the pronoun would have to be in the objective case (her), not the nominative case (she).
- Search the portion of English language text to locate each instance wherein the sexist word HIM is used in third person objective case.
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