Session 2 : Direct and Indirect Objects

Hello again folks..
This is the second session of Working On Your Sentence Grammar. But first, have you guys seen the first session? Did you fill in the exercise session? And did you learn anything new by them? We hope so..
Well, if you haven’t the time to check out them, I personally advise you to, since this second session is very connected to the first one..
Now.. Without further a due, here’s the topic for this week’s session;

The Direct Object
Direct object is a noun or somewhat equivalent to it that followed a verb which describes an action. If you are having a hard time to understand it, direct object is a noun that answers the question “what” or “whom” just after the verb.
Here’s some example (direct objects are bold and underlined);
1. The police shot the robber.
S V DO
2. Joanne enjoys swimming.
S V DO
3. Dirt covered the porch.
S V DO
In the first example, the robber answered the question of “Who is shot?”, while swimming in the second example answered the question “What Joanne enjoys?”. The porch is explaining “What was covered by dirt?”.
And that’s all there is about the direct object. Really easy don’t you think?
Moving on to next matter, shall we?

The Indirect Object
Indirect object is pretty close to direct object, since the indirect object answers questions like “To whom or to what?” or “Of whom or of what?” . The indirect object is placed before the direct object. This can be very tricky, so please spend some time to observe the examples given.
Examples;
1. John gave Susan flowers.
S V IO DO
2. The police asked the driver difficult questions.
S V IO DO
Can you see the pattern? In example number one, Susan answered the question “John gave flowers to whom?”, and in the second example, the driver explained “the police asked difficult questions to whom?”.

Well I believe that’s all we have for today’s session. Keep waiting for the next session of Working On Your Sentence Grammar.. Meanwhile, why don’t you guys try to answer the next exercise session..

See you soon..