A case of nouns and pronouns serving as the object of a transitive verb or a preposition.
pronouns after a preposition take the objective case
Example sentencesExamples
Search the portion of English language text to locate each instance wherein the sexist word HIM is used in third person objective case.
Place whom or what after a participle and ask a question, and the word that answers it, is in the objective case and governed by that participle.
In conversations with junior-high-school children I notice their complete ignorance of the objective case of the relative pronoun.
As subject of the clause introduced by the conjunction than, the pronoun must be nominative, and as object of the preposition than, the following pronoun must be in the objective case.
Compared to possessive case, the objective case is much more limited in these dialects.
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).
Thus, we have "whom", the "m" of which denotes objective case.
The nominative, vocative, and objective cases belong in Scripture and tradition to he and him; but this minority tradition of sapiential literature and mystical devotion might be honored, preserved, and learned from by use of the female genitive case.