Definitions
True or False
Identify Verbs
Direct Object
Indirect Object
100
Does the direct object answer [what or whom] or [to/for whom]?
what or whom
100
All linking verbs are transitive; they show action.
False
100
Identify the verb: Because of blood sugar problems, Rosa always eats before leaving for school.
Verb: Eats
100
Identify the direct object: Sylina hates biting her fingernails.
DO: Biting her fingernails
100
Identify the indirect object. If you would like, we can give Martha the tickets to tonight's game.
IO: Martha
200
Only _____ verbs can be transitive. _____ verbs cannot be transitive
action....linking
200
The sentence: "She ate the apple." is transitive.
True
200
Identify the verb: During cross-country practice, Damien runs over hills, through fields, across the river, and along the highway.
Verb: Runs
200
Identify the direct object: After dinner, the family ordered a cake.
DO: a cake
200
Identify the indirect object. Did the students give their teacher the assignment?
IO: Teacher
300
Transitive verbs transfer their action to the...
direct object
300
The sentence "She ate hungrily." tells what she ate, not how she ate
False
300
Identify the verb: The judge sentences the man to five years in prison
Verb: Sentences
300
Identify the direct object: The speaker read his speech and answered some questions.
DO: speech
300
Identify the indirect object. Can you write the clerk a check for the groceries?
IO: Clerk
400
The direct object must receive the action of the ________ verb to make sense.
transitive
400
If it is not an action verb it can't be in active voice.
True
400
Identify the verb: The defendant could not provide an alibi.
Verb: Could not provide
400
Identify the direct object: The director assigned the team a project that everyone else had refused.
DO: Project
400
Identify the indirect object. Jim built his granddaughter a sandcastle on the beach.
IO: Granddaughter
500
What do intransitive verbs do?
Complete action without an object
500
In the sentence, The crowd moved across the field to return to their cars. "Across" is the verb.
False: "Moves" is.
500
Identify the verb: In the spring, Damien will run his first marathon.
Verb: Will run
500
Identify the direct object: Dragging her seventy-five pound German shepherd through the door is Roseanne's least favorite part of going to the vet.
DO: Her seventy-five pound German shepherd
500
Identify the indirect object. Tomas paid 200 dollars to the mechanic to fix the squeaky brakes.
IO: Mechanic
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