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direct object

NOUN
  1. the object that receives the direct action of the verb

How To Use direct object In A Sentence

  • Transitive verbs take a direct object.
  • The cross-reference table contains information that permits random access to indirect objects within the file, so that the entire file need not be read to locate any particular object.
  • Alternatively, the verb might be construed with the direct object ‘life’.
  • Since in the latter the indirect object has become the subject of the sentence, the construction is called the indirect passive.
  • And although I did a bit of a double-take, I soon got the idea of what was meant by that stunningly ungrammatical sleeps obedience - with its intransitive verb assigned a direct object in defiance of all syntactic decency.
  • you can use the verb `drink' intransitively, without a direct object
  • The verb ` eat'takes a direct object.
  • Using a straight news story, circle all the direct objects in blue, the indirect objects in red, and the objects of prepositions in green.
  • One indirect objective of the Gaza offensive might have been to warn off Israel's other non-state militant foe: Hizballah.
  • In the sentence 'Give Val some cake', 'Val' is the indirect object.
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