In English
An oblique/objective case appears in the English personal pronouns; these forms are often called object pronouns. One can observe how the first person pronoun me serves a variety of grammatical functions:
- in an accusative role for a direct object:
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- She bit me!
- in a dative role for an indirect object:
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- Give me the rubber hose!
- as the object of a preposition:
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- Stop spitting on me!
- and as a disjunctive topic marker:
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- Me, I like French.
- I like him. —Hey, me too.
- with a copula:
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- Who is it? —It's me.
- with a conjunction (informal/deprecated):
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- Me and him are going to the store.
- in a genitive case role (dialectical):
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- That's me tractor you's stealin'.
The pronoun me is not inflected differently in any of these uses; it is used for all grammatical relationships except the genitive case of possession (in standard English) and a non-disjunctive nominative case as the subject.
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