accusative case

Also known as accusative, acc, direct object case

grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb

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The accusative case is a grammatical feature used in some languages to mark which word is the direct object of a verb—in other words, which noun receives the action of the verb. This matters because it helps clarify who or what is doing the action versus who or what is being acted upon, making sentences clearer and less ambiguous.

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In grammar, the accusative case (abbreviated acc) of a noun is the grammatical case used to receive the direct object of a transitive verb.

In the English language, the only words that occur in the accusative case are pronouns: "me", "him", "her", "us", "whom", and "them". For example, the pronoun she, as the subject of a clause, is in the nominative case ("She wrote a book"); but if the pronoun is instead the object of the verb, it is in the accusative case and she becomes her ("Fred greeted her"). For compound direct objects, it would be, e.g., "Fred invited me and her to the party".