6th grade verb practice 10.1-10.2

Action verb

• it has a direct object

• it has an indirect object

• names an action

direct object

• receives the action of the verb

• is a transitive verb

• is an intransitive verb

transitive verb

• receives the action of the verb

• has a direct object

• doesn't have a direct object

• is a linking verb

intransitive verb

• has a direct object

• receives the action of the verb

• does not have a direct object

What questions does a direct object answer?

• whom or what

• when or where

• how come

indirect object

• answers the question to whom or for whom

• for what

• when

• why

Indirect objects appear only in sentences that have a direct object.

• True

• False

Not all action verbs take direct objects.

• False

• True

Indirect objects always comes before the direct object.

• False

• True

If you add the word to or for in front the indirect object, the sentence still makes sense.

• True

• false