No, asked is a verb. A verb is a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence. The direct object is the word or words that is the result of the act or the thing acted upon. Example:
"You asked a question." The word asked is what you did (the verb) a question is what was asked (the direct object of the verb).
The direct object of the verb 'asked' is the noun question. The noun Juanita is the indirect object, 'I asked a question of Juanita about...'.
The students asked the teacher for her opinion.
You can determine if a sentence does not have a direct object by checking if the verb has a direct object. If the verb does not require a direct object or if there is no noun or pronoun that directly receives the action of the verb, then the sentence does not contain a direct object.
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a direct object is your mum
"You were in the mountains" does not have a direct object.
the objective case of I, used as a direct or indirect object: They asked me to the party. Give me your hand cutir
The verb does not have a direct object in the sentence, "She is insecure."
I gave my dog a bone ('my dog' = indirect object; 'a bone' = direct object). They called me a taxi. (taxi - direct object, me- indirect object)
Inertia is the resistance to a change in motion of an object, and is proportional to the mass of the object. The question is probably asked in jest, and the direct answer would be, the inertia is represented numerically by the goniophotometer's mass.
The direct object is "you"; the indirect object (I believe) is "this".