Object - Academic Mode

Object definition
In grammar, an object is a noun, pronoun or noun phrase in which a verb performs an action; it is located at the end of a sentence and is governed by a verb or a preposition; for example, in the excerpt, "My aunt opened her purse and gave the man a quarter ... It was Valentine's Day and she had baked me a whole box of heart-shaped cookies" (The Amnesia, by Sam Taylor), "man" and "me" are indirect objects

Object types
There are three types of objects:

Direct object
A direct object in a sentence is directly acted out by a subject such as, "All actors have played their part" . Object
An indirect object in a sentence is the recipient of the action performed by the subject such as, "Pauline has passed a package to her mother."
Object of Preposition
The object of the preposition is a noun or pronoun handled by prepositions such as, "The cat gets into your house when they sleep ping."
Examples of objects in literature
Example # 1: Charlotte's Web (by E.White)
"Closed the box carefully. ”First he kissed his father, then he kissed his mother, and held it against her cheek. "

In this example," cardboard "and" lid "are direct objects." Her father "and her mother" are indirect objects because they are the recipients of the actions in these sentences.

Example # 2: A Tale of Two Cities (by Charles Dickens)
“All of these things, and a thousand like them, happened and closed the beloved year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Surrounded by them, while the Lumberjack and the Farmer worked without being heard, those two from the great jaws, and the other two from the plain and the beautiful faces, stomped quite agitatedly, and carried their divine rights with one hand raised. .. With drooping heads and shaking tails, they pushed their way through the thick mud, struggling and stumbling between times, as if they were falling apart in the largest joints. "

In this passage, there are three underlined objects: "they", "high hand" and "through thick mud". The first is an indirect object, while the second and third are objects of prepositions.

Example # 3: Pride and Prejudice (by Jane Austen)
“Well, my dear, you must know that Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken over by a young man of great fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise-longue and four to see the place, and was so delighted with him that she immediately agreed with Mr. Morris; that he will take over before Michaelmas, and some of his servants will be in the house by the end of next week ... "I don't see any occasion for that. You and the girls can leave, or you can send them out yourself, which maybe be even better, because since you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Maybe Bingley likes the best of the party. "

In this fragment, the first “a young man” is an object of preposition; “House” and “themselves” are direct objects.

Example # 4: A modest proposal (by Jonathan Swift)
“I think all parties agree that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the back, or on the heels of their mothers ... As I was informed by a chief Cavan county gentleman, who protested to me, that he never heard of more than one or two cases under the age of six, even in a part of the kingdom so

In this case , there are only two objects. Both “all the parts” and the “main knight” are direct objects on which an action is performed.

Function of the object
The role of an object is very important for both writing and speaking; it is a person, a place or a thing, on which the verb performs an action; complete the meaning of a sentence; Without an object, a sentence is meaningless, in terms of the action it shows. The target is sometimes a direct object, an indirect object t, or a preposition object. In terms of semantic functions, it shifts the meaning of the verb forward to itself rather than backward to the subject. This makes reading flow well, as most sentences with objects and direct objects are written with an active voice.