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Poetry Collection 5: Basho, Anonymous, Lillian Morrison
Poetry Collection 6: Soseki, Anonymous, Dorthi Charles
Integrated Language Skills: Grammar
Subject Complements: Direct and Indirect Objects
Most sentences need words beyond a subject and a verb to complete their meaning.
Direct objects and indirect objects complete ideas and make sentences more specific.
 A direct object is a noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb and
answers the question Whom? or What?
 They recited their poems. What was recited? their poems
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Poems receives the action of the verb recited.
The teacher greeted them. Greeted whom? them
Them receives the action of the verb greeted.
An indirect object is a noun or pronoun that names the person or thing to whom
or for whom an action is done. An indirect object answers the question To or for
whom? or To or for what?
She sent him a poem. To whom? him What? a poem
The indirect object is him.
The direct object is poem.
He wrote his grandmother and grandfather a limerick. For whom? grandmother
and grandfather What? a limerick
The compound indirect object is grandmother and grandfather.
The direct object is limerick.
A. PRACTICE: Underline the direct object once. Underline the indirect object twice.
Then, write the question each object answers: • What? • To whom? • For whom?
1. The new student gave the teacher his haiku.
Direct object answers _____________________ Indirect object answers__________________
2. The nurse offered Sally a cellphone.
Direct object answers _____________________ Indirect object answers _________________
3. Her mother sent the teacher a note about Sally’s absence from school.
Direct object answers _____________________ Indirect object answers _________________
B. Writing Application: Write four sentences about a shopping trip. Tell what you and
an adult family member buy. Include a direct object and an indirect object in every
sentence. Underline the direct objects once and the indirect objects twice. You may want
to use some of the following verbs: bought, gave, showed, paid, sold, asked, found.
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Grade 6 Unit 4
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