Direct and Indirect Objects

You can have a direct object without an indirect object.

The sisters can watch several movies without getting tired. (Direct Object)

All Linking Verbs are always intransitive.

If there is an indirect object, there must be a direct object.

What questions do you ask to find a direct object?

The teacher is judging the art competition. (Direct Object)

The farmer and her daughters sold the grocer their entire corn harvest. (Indirect Object)

What questions do you ask to find an indirect object?

The judge gave Alice a gold medal for winning the swimming race. (Indirect Object)

Mr. Fitzgerald and his fifth-grade class sent their principal a giant get-well card. (I O)

George will finish the painting this evening. (Direct Object)

The football coach explained the rules and regulations of the game. (Compound Direct Object)

A direct object is a noun or pronoun that receives that action of a verb.

On Friday and Saturday, my brother and I had fun playing basketball and baseball. (Compound DO)

Transitive Verb

What verbs have indirect and direct objects?

Mom and Dad bought some apples and oranges at the grocery store. (Compound Direct Object)

Intransitive Verb

Erica is climbing the steepest trail. (Direct Object)

An indirect object is a noun/pronoun that tells to whom/what or for whom/what the verb is done.