1. Nouns as Objects and Object Complements  A noun can be a direct object. It answers who or what after the verb. The community opened a neighborhood center.

2. Nouns as Objects and Object Complements  A noun can be an indirect object. This tells to whom or for whom or to what or for what an action is done. The center offers children classes.

3. Nouns as Objects and Object Complements  A noun can be the object of a preposition when it follows a preposition such as in, into, on, to, by, for, from, with, without. I took a class in ceramics there.