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direct object
noun
The noun or noun phrase that a verb is directly acting upon.
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(The direct object is "what").
"There's no direct object there," Mr. Spencer said.
Sometimes there is a direct object: She reads "The Odyssey".
The unmarked order is subject + indirect object + direct object + predicate.
"Incur" is a transitive verb (it takes a direct object).
Make it "whom," the direct object of "has seen".
Transitive verb: A verb that can take a direct object.
The direct object is reached with few if any conditional phrases in the way.
The only other suitable direct object he has come up with is "Frank Gehry".
Sometimes they have been the direct object of hunters of feathers and eggs.
"the implied intransitive" because it has no direct object but implies there should be one.
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