object of the verb
- noun
- Specialized
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objeto del verbo
- In the phrase 'They showed him the pictures,' 'the pictures' is the object of the verb because they are what was shown.
Examples
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In the sentence 'He threw the ball,' 'the ball' is the object of the verb because it receives the action of throwing.
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In the sentence 'She reads books,' 'books' is the object of the verb.
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The teacher asked students to identify the object of the verb in each sentence.
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Understanding the object of the verb can help you analyze sentence structure.
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The object of the verb is important.
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What is the object of the verb?
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To identify the object of the verb, look for the noun that receives the action in a sentence like 'She bought a book.'
Synonyms
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A word like a noun or pronoun that gets the action in a sentence
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A word or group of words that names people and things and receives the action of a verb
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase's meaning is directly compositional: 'object' (the noun receiving an action) linked by 'of' to 'the verb' specifies which verb the object belongs to, so a learner who knows these words can infer it. This is a standard grammatical relation found across many languages, making it immediately transparent to a B1 learner familiar with the constituent terms.
Etymology
The term object of the verb comes from a simple picture: think of a verb as someone doing something and the object as the thing the action hits, like a ball someone throws. So object of the verb means the word or phrase that 'receives the action' of the verb in a sentence.