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Objectively speaking, the right word is 'us'

 
By Gene Owens | Published: March 6, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

Bert Rackett of Oklahoma City read about the National Football League's action permitting the big-screen showing of football games in churches.

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The Swayback Daily Kick quoted one enthusiast as saying, "There's great rejoicing for us football fans who attend church.”

"No matter how I write the sentence, it doesn't seem right,” Bert told Buck. He tried "We football fans who attend church ...” and "... for us football fans whom attend church” and "... for we football fans who attend church.”

"Give me a rule about when a subjective pronoun becomes objective in the second half of the sentence,” he said.

Simply put, if the pronoun is the subject of a verb, you use the subjective case (also called the nominative case) no matter where it is in the sentence and no matter what case its antecedent is in.

In the sentence that puzzled Bert, "us football fans” is the object of the preposition "for.

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