Objects of Verbs

Which two questions does a direct object answer?

• Where?  Why?
• Whom? What?
• Time?  Location?
• When? Where?

Which type of verb does a direct object follow?

• Action
• Linking

Which word is the direct object?
Hurricane Irma created havoc.

• havoc
• Hurricane Irma
• created

Which word is the direct object?

Mark, Anne, and Natasha ate dinner at the new Chinese restaurant.

• restaurant

• Chinese

• ate

• dinner

Which word is the direct object?
Kyle studied the many pages of notes for the test.

• Kyle
• pages
• notes
• test

Which word is the direct object?
The fire destroyed the house and the car.

• fire
• destroyed
• house/car
• the

Which word is the direct object?
Stephen rescued the toddler from the burning building. 

• building
• toddler
• Stephen
• rescued

What is the direct object in this sentence:
We sent a package to our relatives in Iowa.

• We
• Iowa
• package
• relatives 

What is the direct object?
Tina is making dinner for us.

• Tina
• making
• us
• dinner

What is the subject?
Our boss is buying us dinner.

• Our
• boss
• dinner
• us