Direct objects

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Direct objects

• must follow an action verb.
• will answer what or whom after the action
  verb.
• will be a noun or pronoun.

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An action verb may also have
an indirect object.

• There must be a direct
• object answering what or whom.
• The indirect object will answer
• to or for whom or what.

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Indirect Objects

• will always follow an action verb.
• will always have a direct object.
• will come before the direct object.
• will come after the action verb.
• will answer to or for whom or what.

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Direct 0bjects
bought
a cat.
Rachel
Rachel bought what? cat
Bought what?
Rachel bought cat
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Rachel
Bought Tamara
a cat.
Rachel bought what? cat
For whom?
Rachel bought cat Tamara
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Homework, page 301, Exercise 1

• Some sentences will have only direct objects.
• Some sentence will have both direct objects and
  indirect objects.
• Diagram each sentence.

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Direct Objects

• Must follow an action verb.
• Answers the question for what or whom.
• .

Mother bought a new bed for kitty.
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Indirect Objects

• Must have a direct object in the sentence.
• Will occur after the action verb.
• Will occur before the direct object.
• Will answer the question to or for whom or
  what.

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Diagramming direct and indirect objects
Ross got a treat for Meow-Meow.
Ross got treat
Ross got Meow-Meow a treat.
Ross got treat for whom?
Meow-Meow