Subjects
What is a subject?
A part of a sentence that contains the person or thing (noun/pronoun) performing the action (verb) in a sentence
What is a predicate?
Part of the sentence that describes either what the subject is doing or the state of the subject
What is a direct object?
A direct object is the noun that receives the action of the verb.
Direct objects usually answer the questions “what?” or “whom?”
Whats an Indirect object?
The indirect object, however, is the noun that receives the direct object itself.
Indirect objects usually answer the questions, “who or what is receiving the direct object?”
they tell us direction, location, time, and space.
They indicate relationships between other words in a sentence.
And when something happened.
What is the subject in the following sentence?
"Rob ran across the park"
Rob
What is the predicate in the following sentence?
"Rob ran across the park"
Ran across the park
What is the direct object in the following sentence?
"The employees eat bacon"
Bacon
What is the indirect object in the following sentence
"Emily passed Simon the ball"
Simon
(Tip: ask yourself WHO is getting passed the ball)
What is the preposition in the following sentence.
"Sam left his jacket in the car."
True or false
direct objects answer the questions “what?” or “whom?” about the action of the verb,
true
true or false:
Indirect objects can only be placed directly after the verb and before the direct object.
true
True or false
indirect objects answer questions like “to whom?” or “for what?”
true