General English Level 3 GELEV3 Unit 04 Topic 01.doc LANGUAGE FOCUS 05 Direct and indirect objects Do you know what an object is? Do you know the difference between direct and indirect objects? In this activity you will find out! Most verbs take an object. The object is the person or thing that the verb acts on, or does something to. For example, in the sentence: 'They are eating dinner', dinner is the object of the verb 'are eating'. Some verbs can take a direct object and an indirect object. LOOK Pedro doesn't have any money. Jim lends some money to Pedro. direct object indirect object Jim lends some money to Pedro. We can say this in a different way: indirect object direct object Jim lends Pedro some money. Another example: indirect object direct object I gave my brother the keys. 121 QUESTLANGUAGE