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Direct object pronouns are highlighted in the sentence below:
James called her.
The loud noise scared us.
The interviewer intimidated him.
The guest list included them.
That key won't open it.
The new movie thrilled me.
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SteveThe direct object is what receives the verb. It answers the question "___ what?" The underline is the verb in the sentence.
i.e. John made a sandwich.
Sandwich is the direct object because it receives the action.
An indirect object answers the question "For what/whom?"
i.e. John made me a sandwich.
Me is the indirect object because that is what John made the sandwich for.
Note: A direct or indirect object cannot be in a prepositional phrase.
i.e. John made me a sandwich. Or, John walked for miles.
A direct or indirect object also can only be a noun or pronoun.
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In a normal simple sentence the direct and indirect objects are nouns. You can say,"He gave John the book" What did he do? He gave. What did he give? A book. The book is the direct object. To whom did he give it? He gave it to John. John was the indirect object. So in our sentence, "Pronoun gave the noun to noun." or "He gave the book to John." Is that as clear as mud?
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How are direct and indirect objects alike?
In English, both are in the objective case and both are complements of verbs as part of a complete predicate. (In many other languages, such as Latin and German, there is a separate "dative" case for indirect objects.)
What part of speech is 1999 in the sentence she was born in 1999?
It is the direct object.
What part of speech is 'THY'?
It's a possessive pronoun (direct). The indirect form is "thine". The latter ("thine") is also used as the direct possessive pronoun when there is a vowel starting its object: "Give the hat to thine enemy," instead of "... thy enemy." See related link below for more information.
What part of speech does vi. stand for?
It stands for an intransitive verb, a verb that does not have a direct object.
Direct and indirect discourse?
Statements which give the thought of another in his own words are said to be direct quotations or direct discourse; for example: 1. John said, "I will come." 2. William writes, "The sleighing is excellent." 3. The order is, "Come at once." 4. The question is, Shall we go ? Statements which give the substance of another's thought in a somewhat different form are said to be indirect quotations ox indirect discourse; for example: 5. John said that he would come. 6. William wrote that the sleighing was excellent. 7. The order was to come at once. 8. The question was whether we should go. PS: Got it from other site
