Understanding Direct and Indirect Objects

What is the role of an object in a sentence?

• To perform the action

• To modify the verb

• To receive the action

• To describe the subject

Which of the following questions does a direct object answer?

• Where

• When

• What

• Why

In the sentence 'Ricky threw pebbles in the pond', what is the direct object?

• Pond

• Pebbles

• Threw

• Ricky

What question does an indirect object answer?

• How

• Why

• What

• To whom

In the sentence 'He passed a packet to Nikki', who is the indirect object?

• Passed

• Nikki

• Packet

• He