Cases of Nouns: Objective (Accusative) Case

Objective (Accusative)

is the category of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb.
When we say object, objective case or object of the preposition we are not talking about something tangible or the literal object or thing. We refer to them as one that receives the action.

In short, words that receives the action are in objective case.

We can call it the recipient.

Observe this chart for the position and characteristics of words or group of words in objective case.

*Take note that to easily identify the nouns or pronouns in the objective case you need first to know to action or verb then ask, 'to whom is this done to?'. Usualy, noun or pronouns in objective case are placed at the last part of a simple sentence.

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