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Objects

Objects. Direct, Indirect, & Prepositional. Review. What is a subject? A subject is who/what the sentence is about. What is a verb? A verb is the action of the sentence. What the subject DOES. Direct Objects. What or who the action (verb) is happening to. Answers the question “what”.

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Objects

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  1. Objects Direct, Indirect, & Prepositional

  2. Review • What is a subject? • A subject is who/what the sentence is about. • What is a verb? • A verb is the action of the sentence. What the subject DOES.

  3. Direct Objects What or who the action (verb) is happening to. Answers the question “what”. Bobby kicked the ball. S V DO The ball is what is being directly affected by the action (verb). Suzy built the fence. S V DO

  4. Indirect Objects Answers the “whom, or to whom” of the sentence. It is who is affected by the direct object, or is indirectly involved with the verb. They sent him a postcard. PN V IO DO Steve passed Suzy a note. S V IO DO

  5. Prepositional Object This is who/what is affected by the preposition (on, off, around, near, by) Sally put on her shoes. S V P PO He ran into the street to jump in the puddle. PN V P PO V P PO

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  7. Now you try! Write 5 sentences that use ONLY a direct object. Now, change those sentences to also use an indirect object. Now, rewrite the sentences to only have a prepositional object! How did you do?

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