Identifying Direct and Indirect Objects in English

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Identifying Direct and Indirect Objects in
English
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Subject performs the action of the sentence.

• Verb is the action of the sentence.

Direct Object receives the action of the
verb Indirect Object benefits from the action
received by the direct object.
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How do you find the indirect object in a sentence?

• State the direct object of the sentence and then
  ask

to whom? or to what? or for whom? or for what?
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• Step one Read the sentence. Right click and
  choose the pointer to make marks on the slides.
• Step two Circle and label the subject of the
  sentence.
• Step three Underline and label the verb of the
  sentence.
• Step four Circle and label the direct object.
• Step five Circle and label the indirect object
• Step six Click to the next slide to check your
  work.

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Identify Subjects, Verbs, Direct and Indirect
Objects
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I threw the ball to my brother.
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I threw the ball to my brother.
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I introduced the foreign exchange student to my
friends.
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I introduced the foreign exchange student to my
friends.
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The mother gently washed the baby in the bathtub.
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The mother gently washed the baby in the bathtub.
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Johnny won the championship for our team with two
seconds remaining on the clock.
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Johnny won the championship for our team with two
seconds remaining on the clock.
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My mother baked brownies for the bake sale.
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My mother baked brownies for the bake sale.
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Ralph gave the bone to the dog.
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Ralph gave the bone to the dog.
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My dad did the dishes for my mother.
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My dad did the dishes for my mother.
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I tutored my sister for her algebra test.
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I tutored my sister for her algebra test.
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My cousin Rita brought us fresh-picked vegetables.
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My cousin Rita brought us fresh-picked vegetables.
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Loud music gives my brother headaches.
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Loud music gives my brother headaches.
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Loud music gives my brother headaches.
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Janelle baked her family double-chocolate
brownies.
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Janelle baked her family double-chocolate
brownies.
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Louies sister made the team a pitcher of
lemonade.
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Louies sister made the team a pitcher of
lemonade.
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Ezra read us the newspaper from Mexico City.
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Ezra read us the newspaper from Mexico City.
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Colleen showed her father her new gymnastics
routine.
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Colleen showed her father her new gymnastics
routine.
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My sister gave the dog a dish of water.
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My sister gave the dog a dish of water.
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Peyton Manning gave me his autograph.
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Peyton Manning gave me his autograph.
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On Thanksgiving, my sister prepared us a feast.
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On Thanksgiving, my sister prepared us a feast.
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The middle school sent the shelter more than five
hundred cans of food.
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The middle school sent the shelter more than five
hundred cans of food.