You can find the indirect object by finding the verb and direct object (see above) and then asking "for or to whom?". The indirect object is the recipient or beneficiary of the action (more often than not, it's a person). An object can be a single-word noun (e.g., dog, goldfish, man), a pronoun (e.g., her, it, him), a noun phrase (e.g., the doggy in window, to eat our goldfish, a man about town), or a noun clause (e.g., what the dog saw, how the goldfish survived, why man triumphed). (Q: Eat what? A: our goldfish.))ĭon't forget that the term noun does not usually mean a single word. (That seems easy enough, but note that the direct object has its own verb and direct object. Q: Is recovering from what? A: a massive stroke) My cat is recovering from a massive stroke.The verb could be a phrasal verb (e.g., to put down, to give up, to recover from). Q: Don't eat whom? Have what? Eat whom? A: me, a wife and kids, and them) I have a wife and kids! Eat them! (Homer Simpson) Q: Don't have what? Don't know what? A: a bank account and my mother's maiden name.) I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.In each example below, the verb is in bold and the direct object is shaded. You can find the direct object by finding the verb and asking "what?" or "whom?".
The direct object of a verb is the thing being acted upon. Show me an infographic Read more about the objects of prepositions.
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