# Object, Complement: Rules and Examples | SwaVid

Object, complement: The object receives the action of the verb. Rules, examples and a free quick check for Class 6 to 12.

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# Object, complement: rules and examples

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Short answer. The object receives the action of the verb. To find it, say the verb and ask "what?" or "whom?". The answer is the object.

1 . Pick the object. The farmer milked the cow at dawn.

2 . Pick the indirect object. The guide showed the tourists a map.

The object receives the action of the verb. To find it, say the verb and ask "what?" or "whom?". The answer is the object.

The object answers what or whom after the verb.

A person as the object. A person, or a pronoun like me or them, can be the object too. Ask whom.

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- A thing as the object . Gopi cooked dal. Cooked what? Dal. So dal is the object.
- A person as the object . A person, or a pronoun like me or them, can be the object too. Ask whom.
- The main word of the object . The object is often a group of words. Its main word is the noun at its heart. Words like where or when are not part of the object.
- Two kinds of object . Some verbs, like give, send and show, can have two objects. The direct object is the thing given or done. The indirect object is the person or animal that receives it.
- The indirect object comes first . When there are two objects, the indirect object comes straight after the verb. The direct object comes after it.
- The object answers what or whom after the verb.
- Direct: what is given. Indirect: who gets it.
- Thing first? Add to or for before the person.
- Linking verb plus complement: it tells what the subject is or is like.
- Different from the subject: object. Same as the subject: complement.

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