(B. Make questions from the following sentences by changing the positie
'Was' is put before 'Meena'.
of the words printed in bold. Put question marks at the end.
Example: The baby was sleeping.
Was the baby sleeping? (a question)
1. Jyoti will sing.
2. The school is closed.
3. It was raining in the morning.
4. The puppy was hungry.
Answers
Answer:
The normal order of an English sentence is subject-verb-object, like this:
subject verb object
He kicked the ball.
In the above sentence, the action or verb is "kicked". The subject (He) performed the action (kicked). And the object (the ball) received the action.
Strictly speaking, "the ball" is the direct object, and the direct object directly received the action of the verb. Let's look at some more examples:
subject verb direct object
The teacher explained the rules.
Cats eat fish.
John loves Mary.
I like chocolate.
They have bought a new car.
The company is considering my proposal.
Notice that in all the above cases the subject is "doing" the action, and the direct object (D.O.) is receiving or undergoing the action.
A direct object can be one word or several words. It can be:
noun (People eat rice.)
noun phrase (They bought a big red car.)
pronoun (I love you.)
phrase (Tara hates cleaning the house.)
clause (I love when he tells jokes.)
We use Direct Object with transitive verbs only
We DO NOT use direct objects with all verbs. Only a transitive verb can have a direct object. With a transitive verb the action "transits" from the subject through the verb to the direct object (He kicked the ball). The verb kick is a transitive verb because it can have a direct object. But verbs like live, die, cough, sit do not pass any action to something else—they are intransitive and have NO object. Look at these examples—each transitive verb on the left has a direct object, and each intransitive verb on the right has no object:
transitive verb with direct object intransitive verb with NO object
They put off the wedding. Smoke rises.
Most people like ice cream. John was sleeping.
He drinks wine. I will go first.
The mechanic has fixed our car. He died in 1989.
He likes Tara. She lived for 100 years.
DO NOT use Direct Object with linking verbs
Verbs like be, seem, smell, taste do not express action. Instead, they are like an equals sign (=) in mathematics. They are linking verbs. Look at these examples:
Mr Brown is my teacher. (Mr Brown = my teacher)
It seems strange. (It = strange)
It became cold. (It = cold)
There is no direct object in the above sentences because linking verbs do not perform any action. (In the above sentences, my teacher, strange and cold are "subject complements".)
How to find the Direct Object
To check whether a direct object (D.O.) exists in a sentence, and to identify it, ask "what?" or "whom?" about the verb.
The teacher explained the rules.
WHAT did the teacher explain? D.O. - the rules
John loves Mary.
WHOM does John love? D.O. - Mary
He died in 1989.
WHAT did he die? ???? (no D.O.)
WHOM did he die? ???? (no D.O.)
Explanation:
Answer:
Jyoti will sing
Explanation:
who will sing