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A noun!
Actually, that is true most of the time. Technically, it could be a noun -- or it could be an adjective.
Direct objects answer the questions "What?" or "Whom?" relative to an action verb. Predicate adjectives or predicate nominatives (nouns) answer the questions "What?" or "Whom?" about a linking verb.
Take for example the sentences below:
George threw the ball.
What did George throw? The ball. Ball is the direct object.
George is a teacher.
Whom is George? A teacher. Teacher is a predicate nominative (noun) because it renames George and answers the question "whom?"
George is skillful.
What is George? Skillful. Skillful is a predicate adjective because it describes George and answers the question "what?"
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What does answers what or whom mean?
"Answers what" refers to providing information or clarification about a topic or question, while "answers whom" refers to identifying the person or entity that is the subject of a question.
What answers the question what or whom in a sentence?
The subject of a sentence answers the question "what" or "whom." It refers to the person or thing that is performing the action or being described in the sentence.
What word receives the action of the verb and answers the question what or whom?
The word that receives the action of the verb and answers the question "what" or "whom" is called the direct object.
What answers to What or Whom?
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What part of speech answers what or whom?
The part of speech that answers "what" or "whom" in a sentence is a pronoun. Pronouns are words like "he," "she," "it," "they," "who," and "what" that replace nouns in a sentence.
What does answers what or whom mean?
"Answers what" refers to providing information or clarification about a topic or question, while "answers whom" refers to identifying the person or entity that is the subject of a question.
What answers the question what or whom in a sentence?
The subject of a sentence answers the question "what" or "whom." It refers to the person or thing that is performing the action or being described in the sentence.
What literary term answers what or whom?
In terms of sentence construction it is called the 'subject'.
What answers what and whom?
The answer to "what" must be a noun or a pronoun that refers to things. It could be the subject or direct object of the sentence. Ex. What ingredient is needed for the cookies? Sugar is needed. (Subject.) What is he buying? He is buying a car. (direct object.) For whom, the answer is going to be a person or people, and it will be the direct object of the sentence. (The answer for who would be the subject.) Ex. Whom are you taking to the dance? (Notice how you is the subject.) I am taking Bruno. (Bruno is the direct object of the sentence. (For who-- Who is taking Bruno to the dance? Bruno is still the direct object. I am taking Bruno. I is the subject.)
What answers whom or what?
The answer to "what" is a thing.The answer to "whom" is a person.The pronoun "whom" functions as the object of a verb or a preposition.The corresponding pronoun "who" functions as the subject of sentence or a clause.The pronoun "what" functions as a subject or an object in a sentence.
What word receives the action of the verb and answers the question what or whom?
The word that receives the action of the verb and answers the question "what" or "whom" is called the direct object.
What is a noun that answers to whom or for whom?
Give the letter to Mary. to whom?The letter is for Mary. for whom?
What answers to What or Whom?
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What are indirect objects?
A noun that answers the question "To Whom?" ot "To What?" or "For Whom?" or "For What?"
What answers what or whom in a?
Proper nouns
What has the author E Norman Ellis written?
E. Norman Ellis has written: 'Evaluation of the involvement of a police officer in schools of the Killarney District' -- subject(s): Police-community relations, Schools 'Survey of pupils in Vancouver schools for whom English is a second language' -- subject(s): Children of immigrants, Education, English language, Foreign speakers, Language arts, Minorities, Study and teaching 'Survey of achievement in reading in grade 5 of Vancouver schools, February 17-21, 1975' -- subject(s): Ability testing, Reading, Reading (Elementary)
What part of speech answers what or whom?
The part of speech that answers "what" or "whom" in a sentence is a pronoun. Pronouns are words like "he," "she," "it," "they," "who," and "what" that replace nouns in a sentence.
