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LEARNING
TO WRITE IN ENGLISH: Sentences
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Objects
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A verb may be followed by an object that completes
the verb's meaning. Two kinds of objects follow verbs: direct
objects and indirect objects. To determine if a verb
has a direct object, isolate the verb and make it into a
question by placing "whom?" or "what?" after it. The answer, if
there is one, is the direct object:
Direct Object
The advertising executive drove a flashy red Porsche.
Direct Object
Her secret admirer gave her a bouquet of flowers.
The second sentence above also contains an indirect object. An indirect
object (which, like a direct object, is always a noun or
pronoun) is, in a sense, the recipient of the direct object.
To determine if a verb has an indirect object, isolate the verb
and ask to whom?, to what?, for whom?, or for what? after it. The
answer is the indirect object.
Not all verbs are followed by objects. Consider the verbs in the following sentences:
The guest speaker rose from her chair to protest.
After work, Randy usually jogs around the canal.
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