What's a sentence with a compound direct object?

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What's a sentence with a compound direct object?

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Answer 1 · 2016-02-14T23:28:56

Vanessa rode her bike. (Vanessa rode what? She rode her bike . Bike is the direct object in the sentence.)

Answer 2 · 2016-02-19T03:50:09

A compound direct object occurs when more than one noun, pronoun, or group of words acting as a noun receives the action of the same transitive verb.

For example, in the sentence

$Mary$ $"Mary"$ $saw$ $color(red)"saw"$ $the$ $"the"$ $D.O. lion$ $stackrel(color(red)"D.O.")(bb"lion")$ $at the zoo.$ $"at the zoo."$

The only direct object is lion. However, if Mary sees more than one noun, we have a compound direct object, since the same verb is acting on multiple nouns.

$Mary$ $"Mary"$ $saw$ $color(red)"saw"$ $the$ $"the"$ $D.O. lion$ $stackrel(color(red)"D.O.")(bb"lion")$ $and the$ $"and the"$ $D.O. seal$ $stackrel(color(red)"D.O.")(bb"seal")$ $at the zoo.$ $"at the zoo."$

Here, the nouns lion and seal make up the compound direct object.

Be careful! A sentence can still have two direct objects and not contain a compound direct object. When the two direct objects are acted on by different verbs, they are just direct objects. An example of a sentence with two direct objects but no compound direct objects is:

$Mary$ $"Mary"$ $saw$ $color(red)"saw"$ $the$ $"the"$ $D.O. lion$ $stackrel(color(red)"D.O.")bb"lion"$ $and$ $"and"$ $loved$ $color(blue)"loved"$ $the$ $"the"$ $D.O. seal$ $stackrel(color(blue)"D.O.")bb"seal"$ $at the zoo.$ $"at the zoo."$

Here, the lion was seen, but the seal was loved.

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