Part I – Identifying Direct and Indirect Objects



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Subject Complements

18 October 2016

Part I: #8

In the space provided, complete your answer for question #8 on Thoreau’s essay (p. 241).

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Part I I– Identifying Direct and Indirect Objects

Underline every direct object and circle every indirect object. Remember, not every sentence has an indirect object!

1. John Updike has written many novels, short stories, poems, and essays.

2. Janet read me one of his short stories.

3. His choices included Homer, Proust, and Shakespeare.

4. Updike places William Shakespeare at the top of his list of favorite authors.

5. Many would commend him for that choice.

6. Shakespeare's genius for words changed the English language.

7. His themes include human wisdom and folly, joy and sorrow, love and revenge.

8. Year after year, decade after decade, century after century, his characters bring readers laughter, joy, wisdom, and wonder.

9. Few writers have put more music into the language than he did.

10. Even fewer have given the audience more memorable lines or have dazzled listeners with such a range of vocabulary and wit.

Part III – Mixing it Up!

In each sentence below, identify the italicized word or words. After the sentence, write DO (direct object), IO (indirect object), PA (predicate adjective), or PN (predicate noun), depending on what the italicized word is in the sentence.

1. Many people use their hands in conversation.

2. At times, such gestures may seem silly or unnecessary.

3. At other times, such gestures appear meaningful.

4. Patrick read me an article on a recent scientific study about using hands during speech.

5. People in the study were either blind or sighted.

6. Blind children used gestures as often as sighted children did.

7. With equal frequency, people gestured their ideas to both blind and sighted listeners.

8. This study gives the world a new view of gestures.

9. Gestures may be a form of thought or a way of thinking.

10. Of course, current theories are still hypothetical.

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Part I Answers

1. DO: novels; short stories; poems; essays

2. IO: me DO: one

3. IO: us DO: list

4. IO: choices DO: attention

5. DO: Homer; Proust; Shakespeare

6. DO: William Shakespeare

7. DO: hum

8. DO: language

9. DO: readers

10. DO: wisdom; folly; joy; sorrow; love; revenge

11. IO: readers DO: laughter; joy; wisdom; wonder

12. DO: music

13. IO: audience DO: lines; listeners

Part II Answers

1. PA: fresh; fragrant

2. PN: gardener; landscape architect

3. PA: cheerful

4. PN: hydrangeas; hostas

5. PA: spectacular

Part III Answers

1. hands: DO

2. silly: PA unnecessary: PA

3. meaningful: PA

4. me: IO article: DO

5. blind: PA sighted: PA

6. gestures: DO

7. ideas: DO

8. world: IO view: DO

9. form: PN way: PN

10. hypothetical: PA

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