Action Verbs
What is an action verb?
An action verb is a word that names an action and tells what the subject is doing.
What is a direct Object?
The direct object receives the action of a verb and answers the question whom or what
what is an indirect object?
The indirect object answers the questions to whom or for whom an action is done.
Does the action verb come before or after the direct and indirect object.
the action verb comes before the direct and indirect object
does the direct object come before or after the action verb and indirect object
the direct object comes after the action verb and the indirect object.
Does the indirect object come before or after the direct object and action verb?
The indirect object comes after the action verb, but before the direct object.
What is the action verb: Yellowstone covers more than two million acres of land.
action verb: covers
what is the direct object: Millions more catch glimpses of the canyon though airplane windows.
direct object: glimpses
What is the indirect object: My sister lent me her new magazine
Indirect object: me
what is the action verb: Enormous crowds gather beside it.
Action verb: Gather
What is the direct object: Many visitors hike the park's trails
direct object: trails
What is the indirect object: Ms. Kumin read the class the last chapter
indirect object: class
Name every action verb: Visitors to Yellowstone observe a variety of wildlife, and many species of wildflowers grow in the Rocky Mountains.
action verb: observe, grow
Name every direct object: Wind and rain erode the soft rock, and sometimes visitors notice fossils in the canyon walls.
Name every indirect object: The hotel offered its guests free breakfast, so my mother ordered a Waffle.
indirect object: guests, mother