This document discusses direct and indirect objects in sentences. It provides examples of sentences and identifies the subject, verb, direct object, and indirect object in each. The direct object receives the action of the verb, while the indirect object is the secondary receiver of the action. It notes that an indirect object cannot exist without a direct object and that indirect objects can be removed without making a sentence ungrammatical. The document concludes with examples for the reader to practice identifying direct and indirect objects.

1. Direct and Indirect Objects
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2. Direct Objects
 The direct object is the receiver of the
action in the sentence. For example:
The boy broke the dish.
 Subject: boy
 Verb: broke

3. Direct Objects
The boy broke the dish.
 What did the boy break? The boy broke
the dish. Dish is the direct object of the
sentence because it is receiving the action.

4. Direct Objects
Example #2:
Melissa took the paper.
Subject: Melissa
Verb: took
The direct object is what Melissa took.
What did Melissa take?

5. Direct Objects
Melissa took the paper.
The paper is what Melissa took. “Paper” is the
direct object of the sentence because it is
receiving the action.

6. Direct Objects
Example #3
He called her yesterday.
 Subject: He
 Verb: called
What is the direct object of this sentence?

7. Direct Objects
He called her yesterday.
“Her” is the direct object. Who did he
call? He called her. “Yesterday” is an
adverb that tells when he called. It does
not receive the action of the sentence.

8. Direct Objects
Find the direct objects in the following
sentences.
 Thick ice covered the trees.
 The photographer accidentally dropped the
camera.
 Frustrated, Joey tossed his report card in
the garbage.
 The loud noise caught my attention.

9. Direct Objects
The direct objects are underlined.
 Thick ice covered the trees.
 The photographer accidentally dropped the
camera.
 Frustrated, Joey tossed his report card in
the garbage.
 The loud noise caught my attention.

10. Indirect Objects
 The indirect object is the secondary
receiver of the action in a sentence. For
example:
Justin gave his girlfriend a diamond ring.
 Subject: Justin
 Verb: gave
 Direct Object: ring

11. Indirect Objects
Justin gave his girlfriend a diamond ring.
 To whom did Justin give a diamond ring? He
gave a diamond ring to his girlfriend.
“Girlfriend” is the indirect object of this sentence.
 “Girlfriend” cannot be the direct object of the
sentence because Justin did not give his
girlfriend. He gave a diamond ring.

12. Indirect Objects
Example #2:
Mandy told her sister a joke.
 Subject: Mandy
 Verb: told
 Direct Object: joke
To whom did Mandy tell a joke?

13. Indirect Objects
Mandy told her sister a joke.
Mandy told a joke to her sister.
“Sister” is the indirect object of the sentence
because that is to whom Mandy told a joke.
“Sister” is the secondary receiver of the
action in the sentence.

14. Indirect Objects
 Example #3:
He threw Billy the football.
 Subject: He
 Verb: threw
 Direct Object: football
What is the indirect object of this sentence?

15. Indirect Objects
He threw Billy the football.
 To whom did he throw the football? He
threw the football to Billy. “Billy” is the
indirect object of the sentence.

16. Three Important Things To
Remember About Indirect Objects
 #1: The indirect object cannot exist
without a direct object. For example:
We gave him the bicycle.
We gave him.
 Without the indirect object, the original
sentence’s meaning is changed.

17. Three Important Things To
Remember About Indirect Objects
Why can’t there be an indirect object without
a direct object?
 Remember, the indirect object is the
secondary receiver of the action in a
sentence, and the direct object is the
primary receiver of the action. Without a
primary receiver of the action, you cannot
have a secondary receiver.

18. Three Important Things To
Remember About Indirect Objects
 #2: The indirect object can be put into a
prepositional phrase. For example:
He sent them everything.
He sent everything to them.
In the second sentence, “them” is no longer an
indirect object because it is part of a
prepositional phrase. Prepositional phrases
are never direct or indirect objects.

19. Three Important Things To
Remember About Indirect Objects
 #3: The indirect object can be removed
without making the sentence incomplete.
Matt told Lauren the news.
Matt told the news.
 The second sentence is still grammatically
correct without the indirect object.

20. Indirect Objects
Find the indirect objects in the following
sentences.
 The store was handing customers free
samples.
 Eric gave Angie ten dollars.
 John sent me a letter.

21. Indirect Objects
The indirect objects are shaded in blue.
 The store was handing customers free
samples.
 Eric gave Angie ten dollars.
 John sent me a letter.

22. Practice With Direct and Indirect
Objects
 Find the direct and indirect objects in the
following sentences. Not all sentences will have
both direct and indirect objects.
 We gave Mike an award for winning the race.
 The skater fell on the ice.
 Becky handed me the telephone.
 Sam traded baseball cards with his brother.
 Lisa bought her sister a birthday present.

23. Practice With Direct and Indirect
Objects
 We gave Mike an award for winning the
race.
 Sam traded baseball cards with his brother.
(Remember, prepositional phrases are not
direct or indirect objects!)
 Becky handed me the telephone.
 The skater fell on the ice.
 Lisa bought her sister a birthday present.

24. End of Presentation
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