Indirect Objects

What is the indirect object in the following sentence? "Mrs. Jones bought her son a new bicycle for his birthday."

• birthday

• Mrs. Jones

• bicycle

• son

What parts of speech can be an indirect object

• nouns and pronouns

• verbs and adverbs

• adjectives and nouns

• adjectives and adverbs

Indirect objects . . .

• are found between the verb and the direct object

• are found between the subject and the verb

• are found after a prepositional phrase

• are found after the direct object

What is the indirect object in the following sentence? "The hospital volunteer read the patient a story by Roald Dahl."

• volunteer

• patient

• story

• Roald Dahl

Identify the underlined word: Angela drew Maria a country landscape.

• direct object

• indirect object

Identify the underlined word: Rhanera tossed Marco the ball carefully.

• direct object

• indirect object

True or False?

Indirect objects receive direct objects.

• True

• False

Sammy dug his dog a hole to hide its toys. The indirect object is . . .

• Sammy

• dug

• hole

• dog

What is the indirect object in the following sentence? "The soloist sang the audience a beautiful ballad."

• soloist

• sang

• audience

• ballad

What is the indirect object in the following sentence? "The music teacher taught the class a patriotic song."

• music

• teacher

• song

• class