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1 Direct Objects By Jeana West

2 What is a direct object? A direct object receives the action performed by the subject. The verb used with a direct object is always an action verb.

3 Ask yourself whom or what? Another way of saying it is that the subject does there verb to the direct object. What? EX: The car hit the tree. To find the direct object, say the subject (car) and verb (hit) and then ask whom or what: The care hit whom or what? Tree answers the question. The direct object is tree.

4 Direct object tips Must be a noun or pronoun Will never be in a prepositional phrase

5 Examples Tyler threw the ball at Michael’s head. What is the subject? What is the verb? whom or what is the direct object?

6 More practice Max held the candy for ransom. Kevin chased Tyler screaming like a banshee. Paul hit Jeana in the head with a golf club. The kids fought the zombies in the backyard.


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