Direct & Indirect Objects
What do you need to identify first in order to find the direct or indirect object?
The verb in the sentence.
What is the subject of a sentence?
The person or thing performing the action.
What is a pronoun?
A word that replaces a noun.
A sentence has what three basic parts?
Subject, verb, object.
What is a verb?
A word that shows action.
Identify the DIRECT OBJECT:
The family hugged their dog.
Dog
Is this sentence singular or plural?
I am busy.
Singular
What are the three pronoun cases?
Nominative (or subjective), Objective, and Possessive
Put the following in order:
Punctuation, Verb, Subject, Object, Capital letter
Capital letter, Subject, Verb, Object, Puncuation
What is the past tense of the verb cook?
Cooked
Identify the INDIRECT OBJECT:
Jake gave me some cereal.
Me
For a verb and subject to agree they must both be ___ or ____.
Singular or Plural.
These pronouns are in what case?
I, we, you, he, she, it, they
Nominative/Subjective
Why is there a capitalization error in this sentence?
The movie transformers is my favorite.
Transformers should be capitalized because it is a proper noun.
What is the present participle of the verb write?
Is writing
Identify the DIRECT OBJECT:
He read Charlie the book.
Book
Is this sentence singular or plural?
We are busy.
Plural
What pronoun would correctly replace the noun Bob's in this sentence.
Bob told Bob's idea to Molly.
His
What is the subject in this sentence?
Maria and Julie went to the park last weekend.
Maria and Julie
Which principal part of the verb happen is in this sentence?
Nothing has happened today.
Past participle