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the part of the sentence that receives the action of the verb directly, e.g. in I saw the car, I...

the part of the sentence that receives the direct object. An indirect object follows a...

a style of writing and speaking that gives only the facts, without any subjective opinions, e.g...

the part of a sentence that tells us who or what receives the action of the verb. The object can...

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