Grammar - The Object

The Object

Introduction

 

 

What is the object of a verb?

 

The object of verb is the words which tell us the person or thing that the action of the verb happened to.

 

Look at the following example

 

If somebody say

 

The woman carried.

or

My sister waters.

 

 We may feel that there is some more to say.

 Or

 That the sentence is incomplete.

 

So we may ask   him or her to go on and finish the sentence.

And we may ask to tell us,

 

what the woman carried.

or

 what the sister watered.

 

The verb carried and watered doesn’t make any sense by themselves.

Therefore we need to put something after those verbs

 to make sense or to give complete meaning.

 

Therefore we may say,

 

The woman carried a basket.

and

 

My sister watered the plants.

The word basket tells us what the action of the verb carried

happen to

and

The word plants tells us what the action of the verb watered happen to

So

 the basket is the object of the verb carried.

And

the plants are the object of the verb watered.

 

The object is the receiver of the action

And object is

a noun, a noun phrase or a pronoun

 

 


My father treats patients.

                                                                                   Noun

                                                                                  Object

 

Here my father does the action treats.

That action is received by the patients.

Therefore the patients undergoes or are objected to fathers action

So patients is the object of this sentence and it is a noun

 

He treats his patients every day.

Noun phrase

  Object

 his patients is the object of this sentence and it is a noun phrase

 

He treats them well.

       Pronoun

      Object

them is the object of this sentence and it is a pronoun

 

  There can be two objects in a sentence

 

He prescribes his patients medicine.

                          Noun                Noun

                          Object             Object

                                      

Look at the following sentences and identify the highlighted objects

 

                                           My friend studies English.

                                           My father bought a new car.

                                                   I speak French well.

                    The president of Sri Lanka visited India recently.

                                                That cat catches mice.

                                       The girl wore a beautiful dress.

                                      The old man in the bus ate a bun.

                                           The stickman vomited blood.

                                            The teacher gave him a book.

                                                        The dog bit her.

 

There is an easy way to find out the object of a sentence.

 

First pick out the verb and ask “Who?” or “What?”

Verb      -     Who? / What? = object

 

Look at the following examples

The boy eats a bun.

eats      -      What?  = bun (object)

 

That woman sells vegetables.

sells      -     What?  = vegetables (object)

 

The dog bit the girl.

bit       -       who?  = the girl (object)

 

 

Practice Activity

Find the object of the following sentences.

·        The teacher reads the lesson.

·        The students played cricket.

·        The farmer ploughs the field.

·        Samanali borrowed some books from the library.

·         My sister grows plants in her garden.

·         The woman sells vegetables.

·         The medicine given by the doctor cured my headache.

·         The teacher was teaching the grammar lesson.

·         I can give you some money.

·        An old lady baked some buns.

·        The head prefect of our school addressed the meeting.

·         Kurulu who was singing a song.

·        My mother was carrying it.

·        The   lady was scolding them.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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