What is the difference between a direct object and an indirect object?: Difference between revisions

An object is a word in a sentence placed after a [http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/trnsintr.html transitive verb] that gives the verb additional meaning (University Of Ottawa). Without the object, the thought is incomplete. Objects can be nouns, pronouns, or a group of words acting as a noun or pronoun. <ref>Maimon, Peritz, and Yancey. ''A Writer's Resource''. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2010. Print.</ref> Objects are also classified as '''direct''' or '''indirect'''. A direct object receives the action of the verb and answers ''whom'' or ''what''? An indirect object is the receiver of the direct object and answers <i>for whom, for what, to whom</i>, or <i>to what?</i>