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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Direct and indirect objects

I have a packet due for class and I need help finding the direct and indirect objects in the sentences. Here are some of the sentences:
1. After the short flight, Mrs. Berg walked away from the plane
2. She left the scarf on her hat and the cord on her skirt.
3. French observers admired her idea and made her skirt a new fashion.
4. They wanted skirts like Mrs. Berg's.
5. Parisian designers embraced the new style
6. Mrs. Berg's cord had created the popular "hobble skirt."
  

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Would you like to try it first yourself? Then we can help you with problems. Here are two clues to help.

— Philip

  • Would you like to try it first yourself?
  • Then we can help you with problems.
  • Here are two clues to help.
  • 1 - A direct object "receives" the action of the verb; an indirect object "receives" the direct object.
  • [ I gave my dog (indirect) a bone (direct).
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Would you like to try it first yourself? Then we can help you with problems.
Here are two clues to help.
1 - A direct object "receives" the action of the verb; an indirect object "receives" the direct object. [ I gave my dog (indirect) a bone (direct). ] These are not perfect definitions, but they're a good start.2 - Although there are two objects of preposi
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