2. nominative case pronouns for objective case pronouns – Send the memo to Sally and I. 3. “irregardless” for “regardless” – I’ll do it irregardless of the outcome.

Although there are some problems (this will be treated differently), most of the pronouns obey the subjective/objective case rule. This means, for example, that I wouldn’t say ‘Me am coming”.

As you suggest, we’re tempted to choose the objective case pronoun “whomever” here because the object of a preposition must be in the objective case. So we want to write “for whomever.” ...

Other objective case pronouns are ‘him’, ‘them’, ‘me’, and ‘us’. In example 2, ‘to whom’ enables us respond to the question of the receiver of the action.

Many of them inflect for case depending on person (first, second, or third), number (singular or plural), and gender (masculine, feminine, or neuter). And nowhere are the inflections more ...

“Look at me,” echoed Serjeant Parsing, in the same quiet tone: “ me, Objective Case, governed by the preposition at.” “Quite so,” continued Pronoun, turning to Serjeant Parsing.

Objective case is preferable to subjective case when the comparison is between two objects. In colloquial speech, an objective case after “than” is nearly universal, and the authors of great ...