Object As A Part Of A Sentence Building

Study this following example:

The boy drinks an orange juice.

subject   verb    object

/an orange juice/ is an object. Object refers to what verb does. It is usually positioned after:

transitive verbs

Examples:

1. I meet him.
2. They call me, Joe.
3. We learn English language.
4. David called him last night.
5. He can speak French well.

Note: Italic words are the object. 

It can be an objective pronoun, a noun or a noun phrase.

Kinds of Object

There are two kinds of object in English language;

Direct Object

Indirect Object

Direct Object is an object which is directly appointed by the verb. Indirect object is an object which is indirectly appointed by the verb.

Example:

• She gives me a gift.

The verb /gives/ has two objects; /me/ and /a gift/. Here, /me/, is an indirect object and /a gift/ is direct object. We know /a gift/ as a direct object because the verb /gives/ basically refers to a noun /a gift/, not /me/.

How do we know that this one is Direct and other is Indirect Object
Direct object is always in noun or noun phrase. And, Indirect object is always in pronoun.

Learn carefully!

• She gives me an apple.

me: pronoun or objective pronoun.
an apple: a noun.