Examples of direct object in a Sentence
“Me” in “He likes me” is a direct object.
In the sentence “They built a house for her,” the direct object is “house” and the indirect object is “her.”
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The moving hand embodies the subject, the movement is the action, and the other hand is the direct object.
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Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Meanwhile, a two-year-old child tested alongside Kanzi quickly intuits that two nouns can make up a noun phrase, tucked as a direct object into a verb phrase, which in turn is part of a sentence.
—The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
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Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Meanwhile, a two-year-old child tested alongside Kanzi quickly intuits that two nouns can make up a noun phrase, tucked as a direct object into a verb phrase, which in turn is part of a sentence.
—The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
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“Direct object.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/direct%20object. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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