Indirect Object Pronouns - Parts of Speech - Review in English

Indirect Objects (Parts of Speech)

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(In your own words - "paraphrase") What is a subject of a sentence?

In this sample sentence, “Joey” and “Phoebe” are both the doers of the action “went.” Therefore, both of them are the subjects in this example.

• Joey and Phoebe went to the audition.

In this example, the verb is “slept” and the doer of the action is the noun “Tommy,” which is why he is the subject in this sentence.

• During the exam, Tommy slept in his chair.

What is a Subject?

http://partofspeech.org/subject/#:~:text=In%20its%20simplest%20sense%2C%20the,a%20noun%20or%20a%20pronoun.

What is a verb?

A verb can be considered as one of the most important parts of a sentence. You probably already know that a sentence must be composed of a subject and a predicate, so what makes a verb so important? Well, the verb is the main component of a predicate. Without it, there won’t be a sentence, just a bunch of words with an incomplete thought. Simply defined, the verb is a part of speech which is used to demonstrate an action or a state of being.

http://partofspeech.org/verb/

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Select the verb: Prince Zach conquered the Seven Kingdoms.

• Prince Zach

• conquered

• the Seven Kingdoms

What is a direct object?

In English grammar, a direct object is a word or phrase that receives the action of the verb. In the sentence The students eat cake, the direct object is cake; the word eat is the verb and cake is what’s being eaten.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/direct-object/

Direct objects usually answer the questions “what?” or “whom?” Let’s take another look at the direct object example above.  

The students eat cake. 

Ask yourself, “What did the students eat?” The answer is the direct object, which in this case is  “cake.”

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Let’s try a new direct object example: 

The family hugged their dog. 

What’s the direct object? Ask yourself, “Whom did the family hug?” The answer, of course, is “dog.”

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/direct-object/

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Complete the sentence with a direct object: For supper I am going to eat

Indirect objects are easier to understand if you know what direct objects are. A direct object is the noun that receives the action of the verb. The indirect object, however, is the noun that receives the direct object itself. 

Embiid passed Simmons the ball. 

What is an indirect object?

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/indirect-object/

Embiid passed Simmons the ball. 

In this sentence, passed is the verb and Embiid is the subject because he’s the one doing the passing. The direct object is the ball because it is the thing being passed. Simmons is the indirect object because he receives the ball, the direct object. 

Indirect objects can only be used in sentences with direct objects. However, a sentence can have a direct object without an indirect object (an example of this is simply saying Embiid passed the ball). 

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/indirect-object/

You can find an indirect object by asking yourself “who or what is receiving the direct object?” In the example sentence above, who is receiving the ball? Simmons gets the ball in the pass, so Simmons is the indirect object. 

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Indirect objects can only be placed directly after the verb and before the direct object. 

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/indirect-object/

Open Ended

(1st) Write a sentence that has a subject, verb, direct object, and indirect object.

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(2nd) Write a sentence that has a subject, verb, direct object, and indirect object.

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(3rd) Write a sentence that has a subject, verb, direct object, and indirect object.