The Difference Between Nominative and Objective
rogersgeorge on July 14th, 2024
English Doesn’t have case the way many other languages do. We don’t name dative case and accusative case, we just say “objective case.” We also don’t say “nominative case” (but that’s changing). I remember my teacher calling it the “subjective” case because the word was the subject of the sentence. Just the same, we do have some inflectional endings; perhaps the most notorius is the “m” in “who-whom.” Hence the comic:
The owl is correct—”who” is for subjects (and predicate nominatives), “whom” is for direct objects and objects of prepositions.
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