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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.
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.
Does the verb do something to or for the object? Really, a better question is if the sentence can be reworded to include a preposition.Example: Mark gave Louis the book.Louis is the indirect object because the book, the direct object/ what the verb is acting on, is being given TO him.You can rewrite it as: Mark gave the book to Louis. *Keep in mind that in this form, "Louis" is an object of a preposition, but changing the sentence helps to identify the direct object, and therefore the indirect object.
The direct object is animals. You ask, 'zoologists study what?'; the answer, 'they study animals'.
"John likes James" - John is the subject and James is the direct object."John threw the ball to James" - John is the subject, the ball is the direct object and James is the indirect object.Some more examples of direct objects:In each sentence, "math" is the direct object...He likes math.She does math everyday.They don't know math very well.You can ask a question using the verb to find the direct object in the sentence, so...Who does John like? JamesWhat did John throw? the ballWhat does he like? mathetc.Be careful, however. Sometimes what looks like a direct object, is not a direct object at all. For example:"Greg went to the store"Here "the store" is not the direct object. There is no direct object in this sentence, actually. "The store" is actually the object of the preposition because it follows the preposition "to".If you ask the question,Where did Greg go? You get the answer, "to the store". You get a prepositional phrase as the answer, not a noun like James, the ball and math.You might be wondering why "James" is not the object of the preposition in the second sentence, "John threw the ball to James". Well one easy way to tell that James is the indirect object and not the object of the preposition is to rearrange the sentence. "John threw James the ball". You can't rearrange "Greg went to the store" like that.
ask "Who?" or "What?" after your verb to find the direct object
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
Does the verb do something to or for the object? Really, a better question is if the sentence can be reworded to include a preposition.Example: Mark gave Louis the book.Louis is the indirect object because the book, the direct object/ what the verb is acting on, is being given TO him.You can rewrite it as: Mark gave the book to Louis. *Keep in mind that in this form, "Louis" is an object of a preposition, but changing the sentence helps to identify the direct object, and therefore the indirect object.
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).
The direct object is animals. You ask, 'zoologists study what?'; the answer, 'they study animals'.
Direct Object: "a proverb" Indirect Object: "The students" You know this because you can ask the following questions: Q: What is the teacher reading? A: A proverb Because the teacher is reading a proverb (and not the students), a proverb is the object. Q: To whom is she reading? A: The students Because the proverb is being read to the students, the students are the indirect object.
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.
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