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Direct objects
1.
2. 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
3. Example #2:
Melissa took the paper.
Subject: Melissa
Verb: took
The direct object is what
Melissa took.
What did Melissa take?
4. Melissa took the paper.
The paper is what Melissa
took. “Paper” is the
direct object of the
sentence because it is
receiving the action.
5. 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
6. 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
7. #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.
8. #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.
9. #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