Курсовая работа: Teaching sentence structure

Read each sentence aloud. Identify direct and indirect objects.

WHAT'S IN NAME?

1. After an accident, John Smith dutifully offered the policeman his services as a witness.

2. «Tell me your name.»

3. Smith gave the officer his name.

4. The officer groaned. «Do me a favor. Give me your real name.

5. «I’ve told you the truth.»

6. After three futile tries Smith told the officer, Napoleon Bonaparte.»

7. «That’s better,» said the policeman. «People have given me that Smith nonsense too often.»

PRACTICE 13 Using Direct and Indirect Objects Effectively

By using indirect objects and eliminating useless words, combine each pair of sentences into one good sentence.

Example: Yankee peddlers sold tin ware, pins, gingham, and ribbons. They sold these to housewives.

Yankee peddlers sold housewives tin ware pins, gingham, and ribbons.

1. Uncle Ted sent a carved chess set from the Black Forest. He sent it to me.

2. In shop I am making bookcase. I am making it for my brother.

3. Aunt Pauline wanted me to have a seed necklace. She sent it to me from Puerto Rico.

4. Send the directions. Please let me have them before Saturday.

5. Dad built three new birdhouses. He built them for the wrens.

6. Can you make a poster? Will you make one for us for Book Week?

PRACTICE 14. Using Direct and Indirect Objects in Sentences W

Select five of the following and in good sentences use each as a direct object and as an indirect object

Example: Sally and him

We invited Sally and him to the Bob Cummings Play at the summer playhouse. (Direct object)

We sent Sally and him tickets for the third row. (Indirect object)

him them her and her friend

her him and Sandy my sister and him

us her and him her and Alice

me Mother and me her and me

APPOSITIVE An appositive is a word or expression which explains the noun or pronoun it follows and names the same person, place, or thing.