Grammar and Language Workbook

Unit 3, Verbs 77

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Grammar

Lesson 13

Action Verbs and Indirect Objects

An indirect object can appear only in a sentence that has a direct object. Just as a

direct object answers the question whom? or what? after an action verb, an

indirect object answers the question to whom?or for whom?An indirect object

always comes before the direct object.

James bought Corey a cold drink. (The indirect object Corey answers the

question, James bought a cold drink for whom?)

Naomi gives the class red pencils. (The indirect object class answers the

question Naomi gives red pencils to whom?)

Exercise 1 Write DO in the blank if the italicized word is a direct object or IO if it is

an indirect object.

IO The doctor gave Mayaa vision test.

IO 1. My cousin Rita brought us fresh-picked vegetables.

DO 2. Loud music gives my mother headaches.

DO 3. Janelle baked her family double-chocolate brownies.

IO 4. Louie’s sister made the team a pitcher of lemonade.

IO 5. Ezra read us the newspaper from Mexico City.

DO 6. Colleen showed her father her new gymnastics routine.

IO 7. Camille loaned us her tent.

DO 8. He offered my mother a ride to her office.

IO 9. My sister gave the dog a dish of water.

DO 10. The president gave me his autograph.

IO 11. Carmen sewed her new niece a crib quilt.

IO 12. My father prepared us a feast.

IO 13. The middle school sent the sheltermore than five hundred cans of food.

DO 14. Oma gave Carl three dollars.

DO 15. Mr. Alvarez told me the new teacher’s name.