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What are the two questions you ask to find a direct object?
who and what
What is a direct object and how do you find it?
A direct object is a noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb in a sentence. To find the direct object, you can ask the question "verb + what?" or "verb + whom?" to identify what or whom is being acted upon in the sentence.
Where is the direct and indirect object in the sentence will you please give the nurse a seat?
Seat is the direct object. To find a direct object, identify the subject and verb, and ask what? who?You is the subject, and give is the verb. What did you give? A seat.The indirect object is who or what receives the direct object. Who received the seat? The nurse. Nurse is the indirect object.
What questions would you ask yourself to find the indirect object in a sentence?
To find the indirect object in a sentence, you can ask yourself: To/For whom or what is the action of the verb being done? Who is receiving the direct object? Is there an object that is receiving the action indirectly?
What is the direct and indirect object in the following sentence your parents promised you riding lessons at the local stable?
Here is how to find the direct object:First, find the verb. In this sentence, the verb is is "PROMISED"Then ask "promised WHAT?" The answer will be the DIRECT OBJECT of that verb.Here they promised riding lessonsThen ask "to WHOM?" The answer will be the INDIRECT OBJECT of the verb.Here the riding lessons were promised to you.So the answer is:Direct object: riding lessonsIndirect object: you
What is the direct object in the sentence Mrs Jennings offered cookies to the students?
To identify a direct object, first find the verb. (In the example, "offered" is the verb.) After finding the verb, ask "What?" or "Whom?". What did Mrs. Jennings offer? Mrs. Jennings offered cookies ("cookies" is the direct object).
What verb do you use to find a direct object?
You can use transitive verbs to find a direct object in a sentence. Transitive verbs require a direct object to complete their meaning.
What is the direct object in the sentence zoologists study animals?
The direct object is animals. You ask, 'zoologists study what?'; the answer, 'they study animals'.
What is the direct object of this sentence People study maps of the park?
A direct object is the someone or something that receives the action of the verb. Identify the verb and ask "What?" or "Whom?" to determine the direct object. "study" is the verb in that sentence. What was studied? "maps" is the direct object.
How do you know if its a direct object or indirect object?
Direct objects answer the question "what" and Indierect object answer the question for whomI bought Jack a phone. I gave Jack the phone.In these sentences Jack is the indirect object. The indirect object goes before the direct object. Phone is the direct object.The indirect object can be changed into a phrase using toor for.I gave the phone to Jack.and:I bought a phone for Jack
Is Princess Diana gave much time to help various charities an direct object or indirect object?
I believe it would be a sentence with a direct object of "time" if that's what you're asking. "Princess Diana" is the subject, "gave" is the verb, and then you ask, "gave what?" What she gave is time. "Time" is a direct object.
What four questions do indirect objects answer?
An indirect object doesn't ask, an indirect object tellswho or what gets the direct object. Example:Let's buy some flowers. What will we buy? Flowers, the direct object of the verb buy.Let's buy mom some flowers. What will we buy? Flowers, the direct object. And, who gets the direct object (flowers)? Mom gets the flowers; mom is the indirect object.An indirect object can follow the verb, coming before the direct object; or the indirect object can be the object of a preposition: Let's buy some flowers for mom.
