How Do You Find A Direct Object In A Sentence?
Finding a direct object is no trouble at all! Once you understand a few basic steps, you will be sailing through grammar. The most important step is to picture the sentence in your head. A sentence with a direct object must have an action. If, for example, the sentence states, “He threw the ball over the fence,” picture the boy throwing the ball. The direct object is the object or thing that receives the action of the verb. In this sentence, what object receives the action of being thrown? The ball receives the action of being thrown. Always check that the word you choose as the direct object is a noun (person, place, or thing) or pronoun (a word taking the place of a noun). In our sentence a ball is a thing; thus, it is a noun. Check your work. The sentence names an action of a person throwing a ball. The ball is the object that receives the action of being thrown. “Ball” is a thing, meaning it is a noun.
