Direct Objects
Identify the direct object in the following sentence.
The teacher stopped the fight on the playground.
What is "fight"?
Identify the indirect object in the following sentence.
Ray left Barbara a message.
What is "Barbara"?
True/False: An infinitive starts with the word 'to' and is followed by the simple version of a verb.
What is "True"?
Correct the following misplaced modifier.
Charles saw a dog on the way to the library.
What is "On the way to the library, Charles saw a dog"?
Correct the following dangling modifier with 'Shana' as the subject.
Hoping it would rain, the umbrella was brought.
What is "Hoping it would rain, Shana brought the umbrella" or "Shana hoped it would rain, so she brought the umbrella"?
Identify the direct object in the following sentence.
When we arrived at the airport, we boarded the plane.
What is "plane"?
Identify the indirect object in the following sentence.
The candidate gave voters a chance for questions.
What is "voters"?
Identify the infinitive phrase in the following sentence.
Janice and her friends went to the mall to flirt with the cute guys who congregate at the food court.
What is "to flirt"?
Correct the following misplaced modifier.
They gave a cat to my sister named Fluffy.
What is "They gave a cat named Fluffy to my sister"?
Correct the following dangling modifier with 'Wes' as the subject.
Slathering the popcorn with melted butter, the calorie count skyrocketed.
Identify the direct object in the following sentence.
Last night's homework was the hardest assignment in the history of all assignments.
What is "There isn't one,"?
Identify the indirect object in the following sentence.
Because Craig was speeding, the police officer gave him a ticket for reckless operation.
What is "him"?
Identify the infinitive phrase in the following sentence.
To be perfectly honest, the shoes you're currently wearing at basketball practice are not ones you should wear to a job interview.
What is "to be"?
Correct the misplaced modifier.
The student was punished by the teacher who cheated on the test.
What is "The student who cheated on the test was punished by the teacher"?
Correct the dangling modifier.
To finish by the 3 PM deadline, the computer keyboard sang with Sylvia's flying fingers.
What is "The computer keyboard sang with Sylvia's flying fingers as she tried to finish by the 3 PM deadline" or "As she tried to finish by the 3 PM deadline, the computer keyboard sang with Sylvia's flying fingers"?
Identify the direct object in the sentence.
Jeff told Sue a lie.
What is "lie"?
Identify the indirect object in the following sentence.
When they went to Party City, Nathaniel told Chris his idea for their costumes.
What is "Chris"?
In the following sentence, is the infinitive phrase acting as a direct object, indirect object, or neither?
Cory wants to sing on The Voice one day.
What is "direct object"?
Which of the following sentences need to be revised to make ideas clearer?
A) Anticipating rain, Ann brought the umbrella into the store.
B) Wagging her tail, the new puppy climbed into my lap.
C) As I scrubbed the tile grout with bleach and an old toothbrush, the mildew stains began to fade.
D) Emma Sue was delighted when Mr. Daniels returned her perfect calculus test with an ear-to-ear grin.
What is "D"?
Which of the following sentences need to be revised to make ideas clearer?
A) Groaning on rusty springs, the trampoline tossed the children like clothes in a dryer.
B) Struggling with the tight jeans, the zipper would not budge.
C) After the rain storm, Jeremy walked his chihuahua on a sidewalk covered in wet leaves.
D) Whispering into Valerie's ear, Rafael shared the gossip which had shocked and dismayed everyone in the cafeteria.
What is "B"?
Identify the direct object in the following sentence.
Chance carries notebooks, textbooks, and pencils in his large blue bookbag whenever he is at school.
What is "notebooks," "textbooks," and "pencils"?
Identify the indirect object in the following sentence.
Christmas is my favorite time of year because giving presents is the best!
What is "There isn't one"?
Identify the infinitive phrase in the following sentence.
What do you plan on wearing to practice?
What is "There isn't one"?
Which of the following sentences need to be revised to make ideas clearer? Choose all that apply.
A) Hungry for dinner, the surface is where Gert the goldfish lingered in anticipating of food flakes.
B) Eric's foot indicated his nervousness during the interview, which jiggled wildly.
C) Lying under the dining room table, Noodle the poodle waited for bites of roast beef that Rosie sneaked off her plate.
D) Attached to the email, Charlotte sent her boyfriend Byron another photographic selfie with eerie red eyes.
What is "A, B, and D"?
Which of the following sentences need to be revised to make ideas clearer? Choose all that apply.
A) Sneezing from the high pollen count, a clean handkerchief would come in handy.
B) Closing the hotel room door and pulling the heavy suitcase to the elevator, the relaxing beach vacation came to an end.
C) Too hungry to wait for Brenda's return from the restroom, the bowl of egg drop soup quickly disappeared.
D) Rapping the pencil on the edge of the desk, the fourth cause of the French Revolution would not come to mind.
What is "A, B, C, and D"?