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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.)
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∙ 9y agoA noun or pronoun in the form of an object of a preposition answers what or whom. A noun or pronoun as an indirect or direct object also answer what or whom.
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∙ 13y agoan indirect object
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what comes after the verb, answers the question "to whom"? or " for whom"?
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What are examples of inderect objects?
An indirect object is a noun or pronoun that follows an action verb, receives the direct object, and answers: To whom and To what.
What part of speech is what or whom?
"What" is a pronoun. It's the object form of "who", meaning that's used after prepostions ("to whom, by whom") and in formal speech as the direct object of verbs (whom should I tell?) "What" can be a pronoun, adjective, or adverb. In "What did you say?" it's a pronoun. In "what books have you read?" it's an adjective. In "what with one thing and another, this is hard" it's an adverb.
What is the direct and indirect object in The dog ate the food?
Food is the direct object. This sentence does not have an indirect object. The D.O. answers the question "the dog ate what?" An indirect object would answer the question "for whom / to whom / for what?" as in "I gave the dog a bone." I gave what? A bone (D.O.) I gave the bone to whom? The dog (I.O.)
Does a direct object answer what or whom?
D.O. is what or whom I.O. is to whom or for whom
A word that answers what or whom in a sentence is called what?
There is more than one part of a sentence that can answer those questions.The subject is who or what the sentence is about. It acts, is acted upon, or is described.An "object" noun in a sentence can be the recipient of an action. A direct object receives the action (what or whom), while an indirect object is one to whomor for whom the action is done.
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 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 what or whom in a?
Proper nouns
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 Answers the question whom or what?
an indirect object
What is the Greek definition of whom?
Whom = ος / η / ο . Hope that answers your 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 tells to whom or for whom the action is done?
The indirect object in a sentence tells to whom or for whom the action is being done. It usually answers the question "to whom" or "for whom." For example, in the sentence "I gave her a book," "her" is the indirect object indicating to whom the action of giving is done.
What questions do the accusative and genetive cases answer?
The accusative case answers the question "whom?" or "what?" in relation to the direct object of a sentence. The genitive case answers the question "whose?" or "of whom?" to show possession or relationship between nouns.
What literary term answers what or whom?
In terms of sentence construction it is called the 'subject'.
