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  2. Oblique case - Wikipedia

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    In grammar, an oblique (abbreviated OBL; from Latin: casus obliquus) or objective case (abbr. OBJ) is a nominal case other than the nominative case and, sometimes, the vocative. A noun or pronoun in the oblique case can generally appear in any role except as subject, for which the nominative case is used. [1]

  3. Grammatical case - Wikipedia

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    Languages are categorized into several case systems, based on their morphosyntactic alignment—how they group verb agents and patients into cases: Nominative–accusative (or simply accusative): The argument (subject) of an intransitive verb is in the same case as the agent (subject) of a transitive verb; this case is then called the ...

  4. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    In addition, a few English pronouns have distinct nominative (also called subjective) and oblique (or objective) forms; that is, they decline to reflect their relationship to a verb or preposition, or case. Consider the difference between he (subjective) and him (objective), as in "He saw it" and "It saw him"; similarly, consider who, which is ...

  5. English relative clauses - Wikipedia

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    The grammatical case of a relative pronoun governed by a preposition is the same as when it is the direct object of a verb: typically the objective case. When the relative pronoun follows the preposition, the objective case is required, as in "Jack is the boy with whom Jenny fell in love." while *"Jack is the boy with who Jenny fell in love"

  6. English personal pronouns - Wikipedia

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    objective (accusative) case (me, us, etc.), used as the object of a verb, complement of a preposition, and the subject of a verb in some constructions (see § Case usage below). The same forms are also used as disjunctive pronouns. subjective (nominative) case (I, we, etc.), used as the subject of a verb (see also § Case usage below).

  7. Nominative case - Wikipedia

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    In grammar, the nominative case (abbreviated NOM), subjective case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb, or (in Latin and formal variants of English) a predicative nominal or adjective, as opposed to its object, or other verb arguments ...

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  9. I (pronoun) - Wikipedia

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    I: the nominative (subjective) [i] form I is the only pronoun form that is always capitalized in English. [ii] This practice became established in the late 15th century, though lowercase i was sometimes found as late as the 17th century. [1] me: the accusative (objective, also called 'oblique' [2]: 146 ) [i] form; my: the dependent genitive ...