"There is no objective case for devaluing the ruble in terms of Russia's competitiveness or exports and the likely medium-to long-term flows of capital,"
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And in English, clarity does not depend on using the objective case here : The meaning is obvious whether the pronoun is who or whom.
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Even though no parent would say whom in this sentence, 57 percent of readers stood up for the objective case, in defiance of actual practice.
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They normally emphasize the pronoun, but if they are applied to a reflexive pronoun ( in the objective case ), they emphasize its reflexive meaning.
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The position of a word in a sentence and the conjugation of the verb that follows usually show whether it is in the nominative or the objective case.
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Another prime example is " Me Jane, Tarzan, " where " me " is used ( the objective case pronoun ) instead of the proper subjective case pronoun, " I ".
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"Bill Clinton makes the most common, dirt-poor grammatical mistake of using a nominative pronoun when an objective case pronoun is called for, " says Dowis, his voice full of pedantic annoyance.
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Important deflexion changes first arrived in the English language with the North Sea Germanic ( Ingvaeonic ) shifts, shared by Frisian and Low German dialects, such as merging accusative and dative cases into an objective case.
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Grammarians and writers on style who judge the phrase this way include Paul Brians, the Grammar Girl : " it's just a rule that pronouns following prepositions in those phrases are always in the objective case ".
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Breslin caustically concludes, " if I was a moving man and it came to a decision between shoulder mobility and the objective case, I would be pushing a piano and saying ` between you and I . "'
