Practice in Identifying Direct Objects
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Below are the answers (in bold) to the Exercise in Identifying Direct Objects.
* Note that come across is a phrasal verb: that is, the two words function as a single verb.
Below are the answers (in bold) to the Exercise in Identifying Direct Objects.
- As dawn broke I ate my pork and beans, feeling dopey, sleepy.
- Suddenly I saw an open door at the edge of the village.
- She shelled peas, she peeled potatoes and plucked chickens.
- In the IND station at Sixth Avenue and Forty-second Street one recent afternoon, he paid his fare with a free pass.
- Suddenly from out of my window I saw a large crowd near the tracks, held back by two policemen.
- One tough guy had collared a small, tan man with luminous white hair who was headed into the pen.
- But for two or three amazing years, Miss Bentley sat, and played a big piano all night long, literally all night, without stopping.
- I do not collect books for their rarity or beauty but I come across* such books sometimes.
- On Saturday mornings, the older guys played big games against visitors from other neighborhoods or went off themselves to play beyond our frontiers.
- His eyes saw the yellow gravel and the gray walls, and his brain still remembered, foresaw, reasoned--reasoned even about puddles.
* Note that come across is a phrasal verb: that is, the two words function as a single verb.
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