Fun with

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Fun with Direct and Indirect Objects
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• A Direct Object
• Is a noun or pronoun that tells who or what
  receives the action of a verb or shows the result
  of an action.

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How to Find a Direct Object

• 1. Find action verb if it is a linking verb,
  there is no direct object!!
• 2. Then ask whom? or what? after the action
  verb
• One of the questions will be answered if
  there
• is a direct object.
• Example Mary sang a song.
• 1. The action is sang.
• 2. Sang what? The second question is answered.
  The answer song is my direct object.

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How to Find a Direct Object

• Try another one
• Example What a scary movie we saw!
• 1. The action verb is saw.
• 2. Saw what? We saw a movie. Movie
  receives the action of the verb.
• Example Lucy visited me.
• 1. The action verb is visited.
• 2. Whom did she visit? me

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How to Find a Direct Object

• Direct objects can also be compound.
• If they are compound, there will be a conjunction
  such as and, but, or or connecting the two
  compounds.
• Example We saw Mary and Mark at the zoo.
• 1. The action verb is saw.
• 2. Saw who? The first question is answered.
  That means that both Mary Mark are the direct
  objects.

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How to find Direct Objects

• In a question, sentence parts are inverted.
  (That means they are not in their usual
  location.) In a question, one of two things may
  happen
• 1. The direct object may appear before the verb.
• 2. The direct object may be an interrogative
  pronoun that takes the place of the actual direct
  object. (The interrogative pronouns are who,
  whom, whose, which, and what.)

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How to Find Direct Objects

• Example
• DO HV S MV
• Which coat did you bring to school?
• 1. The action verb is did bring.
• 2. Did bring who? Did bring what? The answer
  is coat therefore it is the direct object.

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• On to Indirect Objects

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• Indirect Objects
• Noun or pronoun that appears in sentences with
  a direct object. An indirect object tells to
  whom or to what (or for whom or for what) the
  action of a verb is done.

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How to Find an Indirect Object

• 1. Find the action verb
• 2. Ask whom? or what? after the action verb.
  That will give you the direct object.
• 3.Then ask to whom or for whom after the
  direct object and that will give you the indirect
  object.
• 4. You MUST have a direct object to have an
  indirect object!!
• 5. If you get answers to both questions then you
  have found both a direct object and an indirect
  object.
• 6. The sentence pattern will always be (S V-
  IO- DO.)

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How to find an Indirect Object

• Example Mom gave me a cookie.
• 1. The action verb is gave.
• 2. Gave what? cookie. That is your direct
  object.
• 3. To whom did she give it? me. That means
  that me is the indirect object.

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How to Find an Indirect Object

• Another example
• Lucy brought her a present.
• 1. The action verb is brought.
• 2. Brought what? a present that is your direct
  object.
• 3. For whom did she buy it? Her that is your
  indirect object.

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Practice Sentences Identify the direct
indirect objects in the following sentences. Not
all sentences will have both!!!

1. He gave Icarus careful instructions not to fly
   too near the sun.
2. People borrow millions of books from libraries
   every year.
3. However, Icarus soon forgot his fathers advice.
4. My brother made Mom a birthday cake.
5. Bill cracked three eggs into a bowl.
6. Natalie knitted her friend a sweater.