The Objective Case of a noun or pronoun denotes its office as object complement, or as principal word in a prepositional phrase+.
A noun or pronoun following a preposition as the principal word of a phrase is in the objective case.
The commonest constructions in which personal pronouns take the +objective case+ are the following:-- 1.
Each of these nouns is therefore in the +objective case+.
In such a case, no tube could be used, and the object glass was merely fixed at the top of a high pole.
If the observer were at rest, that is to say, if the earth were a stationary object, the direction in which the light actually does come would be different from that in which it appears to come when the earth is in motion.
It may, however, be mentioned that the kind of instrument which Herschel designed to construct was formed on a very different principle from the refracting telescopes with which we are ordinarily familiar.
Book, a common, concrete noun; singular number; objective case, object of the verb lost.
Street, a common, concrete noun; singular number; objective case, object of the preposition on.
A noun used as the object of a verb or a preposition is in the =objective case=; as, He left his pencil on the desk.
The two others were awakened, and springing upon their feet, attempted to escape.
This General Sir William Johnson was British agent of Indian affairs, and had greatly ingratiated himself into the esteem of the Six Nations.
He lived at the place since named for him, upon the north bank of the Mohawk, about forty miles from Albany.
For a verb to be capable of governing an objective case, it must be a verb signifying an action affecting an object: and {445} if there be no such object, there is no room for any objective government.
The true expression is, that the preposition of followed by an objective case, is equivalent, in many instances, to the genitive case of the classical languages.
Certain transitive verbs, the action whereof is extended not to the whole, but only to a part of their object, are followed by the preposition of and an objective case.
Of steel and gold compacted all gorgeously it glow'd.
And we yet retain an objective case of the pronoun, and inflect it for person, number and gender.
Some teach that, "Every preposition requires anobjective case after it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "objective case" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
