Understanding Direct and Indirect Objects

What question does a direct object answer?

• Why or how

• To whom or for whom

• What or whom

• Where or when

Which of the following is true about direct objects?

• They answer 'to whom' or 'for whom'.

• They always require an indirect object.

• They can stand alone in a sentence.

• They are always at the end of a sentence.

What question does an indirect object answer?

• What or whom

• To whom or for whom

• Why or how

• Where or when

In the sentence 'She gave Chris a bag of cookies', who is the indirect object?

• A bag

• Cookies

• Chris

• She

In the sentence 'Alice caught the baseball', what is the direct object?

• There is no direct object

• The baseball

• Caught

• Alice

Why is it important to identify the action verb in a sentence?

• To find the subject

• To determine the tense

• To identify the sentence type

• To locate the direct object

In the sentence 'Tina threw Sam the ball', what is the direct object?

• Threw

• Sam

• Tina

• The ball

In the sentence 'Tina threw Sam the ball', who is the indirect object?

• Tina

• Sam

• The ball

• Threw

Which statement is true about indirect objects?

• They answer 'what' or 'whom'.

• They depend on the presence of a direct object.

• They do not require a direct object.

• They can stand alone in a sentence.

What is the relationship between direct and indirect objects in a sentence?

• Indirect objects depend on direct objects.

• Indirect objects can exist without direct objects.

• Direct objects depend on indirect objects.

• They are unrelated.