Direct and Indirect Objects

Grammar Rules Guide - Chapter 13

A direct object is the word or words in a sentence designating the person or thing receiving the action of a transitive verb:

Example: The boy broke the dish.

An indirect object comes before the direct object. It tells to whom or for whom the action of the verb is being done:

Examples: Sing me a song. He feeds the turtle lettuce.

Skills Practice

Locate the indirect object in each sentence:

Ellen threw Annie the football.

Buy dad a birthday present.

The old man gave us a warm smile.

I told Dr. Franklin the exact time.

I wrote the carpenter a long letter of complaint.

Locate the direct object in each sentence:

Thick ice covered the trees.

A strong wind broke a large branch.

The falling branch tore an electrical line.

The house suddenly lost its power.

The blackout worried mother.

Grammar Rules Guide Index

Active and Passive Voice - Chapter 1
Adjective, Adverb, and Noun Clauses - Chapter 2
Adjectives - Chapter 3
Adverbs - Chapter 4
Appositives - Chapter 5
Auxiliary Verbs - Chapter 6
Common and Proper Nouns - Chapter 7
Comparatives and Superlatives - Chapter 8
Complements - Chapter 9
Conjunctions - Chapter 10
Conjunctive Adverbs - Chapter 11
Dangling Modifiers - Chapter 12
Direct and Indirect Objects - Chapter 13
Fused Sentences, Run-Ons, and Comma Splices - Chapter 14
Homophones - Chapter 15
Independent and Dependent Clauses - Chapter 16
Interjections - Chapter 17
Mass and Count Nouns - Chapter 18
Misplaced Modifiers - Chapter 19
Noun and Pronoun Case - Chapter 20
Noun and Verb Phrases - Chapter 21
Nouns - Chapter 22
Parallelism - Chapter 23
Perfect and Progressive Verb Forms - Chapter 24
Prepositional Phrases - Chapter 25
Prepositions - Chapter 26
Principal Parts of Verbs - Chapter 27
Pronoun and Antecedent Agreement - Chapter 28
Pronouns - Chapter 29
Regular and Irregular Verbs - Chapter 30
Relative Clauses - Chapter 31
Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Clauses - Chapter 32
Sentence Fragments - Chapter 33
Sentence Types - Chapter 34
Subjects and Predicates - Chapter 35
Verb Mood - Chapter 36
Verbals and Verbal Phrases - Chapter 37

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