The direct object helps the verb.

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Direct Objects

• The direct object helps the verb.
• It will answer the question What? or Whom?
• The captain steers the big ship.
• Steers what?
• The ship.

• The captain calls the crew.
• Calls whom?
• The crew.
• The ship sails.
• Sails what? Sails whom?

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Direct Objects

• Hard rain hit the roof.
• The thunder scared Glenn.
• He shut the windows.
• Glenn read in his room.
• The storm soaked the field.
• Wind toppled the trees.
• Hail pelted the roof.
• During the night, the storm destroyed the barn.