The cat ate the food. In this sentence the cat is the subject and the food is the object. The subject is the "who" or "what" the sentence is about. The object is the thing receiving the action, in this case, the food was eaten.

Mary rode skates. - Skates is a direct object. Mary rode to the store. - Store is the object of the preposition "to." Mary rode home. - What is home? It's not a direct object because she didn't put a saddle on her home like she

Please tell me why this sentence is correct: Alcohol and tobacco are harmful to whoever consumes them. I thought that if the pronoun is a direct object then the objective case is used. However, it is appropriate to use the nominative case when the

"If the i.o.u.'s are issued as threated, it would be the first time since 1992 -- when Gov. Pete Wilson paid roughly 100,000 state employees with them -- that the warrants were used to hold over those to whom the state owed money . "

1. Can you tell me who her sister is? (Her sister is Mary)Mary is object. I supposed that it should be whom. I don't know why it should be whom. It shouldn't be "whom." This is a being verb ("is"), and it doesn't

The direct object is the receiver of action within a sentence. For example, Jeff gave an ice cream cone to his son. What did Jeff give his son? answer: a cone. The Indirect object identifies to whom or for whom or what the action of verb is

O.k. thanks. So it is an indirect object then. I copied and pasted what I read on indirect objects: An indirect object is really a prepositional phrase in which the preposition to or for is not stated but understood. It tells to whom or for whom

Hi, I have read that the indirect object always goes between the direct object and the verb. Not correct. Mary gave Tom a book. Mary gave a book to Tom. Additionally, I have read that the indirect object answers the questions 'for whom' or

I have read that the indirect object always goes between the direct object and the verb. Additionally, I have read that the indirect object answers the questions 'for whom' or 'to whom'. From what I have learned, I could have

I think "which" is correct because there's no object of "give" in the sentence. Hi Terry, There's a guy whom I give my old suits. Whether or not we need the "to" is a separate argument from the business about