Underline the direct objects in the sentences, or extracts from sentences.
1. The next day I visited a good friend of mine.
Underlined: friend of mine.
2. With everything set, I opened the small door of the fly house.
Underlined: door of the fly house.
The direct object is just one word. Which is the direct object in each of your phrases?
1. friend?
2. door?
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To identify the direct objects in the sentences, we need to first understand what a direct object is. A direct object is a noun or noun phrase that receives the action of the verb directly. In other words, it answers the question "whom" or "what" after the verb.
Let's go through the sentences to find the direct objects:
1. The next day I visited a good friend of mine.
In this sentence, the verb is "visited." We can ask the question "Whom did I visit?" The answer is "a good friend of mine." Therefore, "a good friend of mine" is the direct object.
Underlined: friend of mine.
2. With everything set, I opened the small door of the fly house.
The verb in this sentence is "opened." We ask the question "What did I open?" The answer is "the small door of the fly house." Hence, "the small door of the fly house" is the direct object.
Underlined: door of the fly house.
By asking "whom" or "what" after the verb, we can identify the direct objects in a sentence.