0 The direct object of a transitive verb is the person or thing that is affected by the action of the verb. --
1 (in grammar) the word or phrase naming who or what receives the action of the verb: --
Future research must establish the plausibility of a developmental difference between singular and plural forms within the definite article and direct object clitic systems.
The students in this group also received explicit information regarding direct object pronouns.
Crucially, the progress of the event denoted by the predicate could be inferred by inspecting the state of the direct object.
Subjects were more likely to express the affected object as the direct object of the novel verb.
Indeed, an examination of our corpus of maternal speech revealed only two such sentences, both with the non-iconic direct object- instrument order.
They typically consist of a grammaticalized verb and a direct object.
Next, overbuild takes as its direct object a location, rather than what is built.
However, this verb is syntactically distinct from think, know, and say as it takes a direct object.
