Direct & Indirect Objects 8th grade

Review the skill, rewrite the answers in the typecast and you will obtain (2) bonus points.

Repasa la destreza, reescribe las respuestas en el encasillado y obtendrás (2) puntos de bono.

Direct object – a noun or pronoun that follows an action verb and receives the action from the verb. It answers the questions whom or what after the verb.

Pedro le dió la flor a Petra. ¿Qué o quién recibe la acción?

Pedro gave the flower to Petra. What or whom receives the action?

Indirect object – a noun or pronoun that precedes the direct object and tells to whom or for whom or to what or for what the action of the verb in done.

Pedro le dió la flor a Petra. ¿ A qué, para qué, a quién o para quién es la flor?

Pedro gave the flower to Petra. To what, for what, to whom or for whom is the flower?

What is the indirect object in the following sentence?

(to what, for what, to whom, for whom)

Bob gave Cody five dollars (DO) for the basket of peaches.

• Cody

• basket

What is the direct object in the following sentence?

Rain soaked the grass during the summer shower.

• shower

• grass

What is the indirect object in the following sentence?

Billy loaned his tent (DO) to us.

• his

• us

What is the direct object in the following sentence?

(what or whom)

Many visitors hike the park’s trails.

• trails

• park's

What is the indirect object in the following sentence?

(to what, for what, to whom or for whom)

Loud music gives my mother a headache (DO).

• my

• mother

What is the direct object in the following sentence?

People study maps of the park at the visitor centers.

• maps

• park

What is the direct object in the following sentence?

(what or whom)

Visitors noticed fossils in the canyon walls.

• fossils

• walls

What is the indirect object in the following sentence?

(to what, for what, to whom or for whom)

The baseball player gave me his autograph DO.

• me

• his

What is the direct object in the following sentence?

(what or whom)

Sarah’s sister made a pitcher of lemonade.

• pitcher

• lemonade