How To Use Objective case In A Sentence
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The objective case should be used as a direct object.
A Short Guide to Writing About History
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The objective case should be used as a direct object.
A Short Guide to Writing About History
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When _self_ is added to the personal pronouns, as himself, myself, itself, themselves, &c. they are called _compound personal pronouns_, and are used in the nominative or objective case, but not in the possessive.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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The objective case should be used as a direct object.
A Short Guide to Writing About History
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The boy _flies_ the kite, the verb _fly_ is _transitive_, and governs the noun _kite_ in the objective case.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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objective case
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A lovely fact about English is that the subjects of nonfinite verbs are in the objective case ``I don't like him saying that.''
So maybe Chief Justice Roberts was instinctively editing and "improving" the wording of the constitutional oath.