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Case is the grammatical function of a noun or pronoun. There are only three cases in modern English, they are subjective  (he), objective  (him)  and possessive  (his) . They may seem more familiar in their old English form - nominative ,  accusative and genitive. There is no dative case in modern English. Yippee! First more good news. You cannot really go wrong here, we got rid of most of our cases and as a result English is easier than many other languages because nouns and some indefinite pronouns ( anyone, someone, everyone,  and so on) only have a distinctive case form for the possessive. There are a few remnants of old English though, and pronouns have distinctive forms in  all three cases  and should be used with a bit more care. The pronoun cases are simple though. There are only three:- 1.   Subjective case:  pronouns used as subject.   2.  Objective case:  pronouns used as objects of verb...