Sometimes the direct object can be omitted if it is understood or implied.

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It shows the person TO whom or FOR whom the action is done.

B. Indirect Object: used after TRANSITIVE verbs usually together with the direct object

To try on a dress / to try a dress on - to try it on

Some phrasal verbs can be transitive.

Я слушаю вас. - I listen to you.

He plays chess. - Он играет в шахматы.

A. Direct Object: used after TRANSITIVE verbs

Some verbs are transitive in English and intransitive in Russian:

Some verbs are transitive in Russian and intransitive in English:

Most of them can be separated when the object is a noun and must be separated when the object is a pronoun:

Phrasal verbs (a verb + an adverbial particle) should not be confused with a verb + a preposition:

to fill up the forms = to fill them up (to fill up what?) à a phrasal verb + a direct object

to go up the hill (to go where?) à a verb + a prepositional object

Exercise 6.2. (oral) Respond to the instructor's remarks following the pattern below.

Pattern: Did you fill out all the forms? - Yes, I filled them out last week.

Exercise 6.3. Analyze objects in the following sentences.

1. 1. Where are the papers you have brought me?

2. 2. Who will pay you for this?

3. 3. The telegram was sent them two weeks ago.

4. 4. They left him alone.

5. 5. I owe you now.

6. 6. It hardly cost her anything to get this car.

7. 7. I meant to have given you some money this morning. Please, forgive me my poor memory. I'll give it to you in the afternoon.

8. 8. Please, write me as much as you can.

9. 9. The gardener gave the fence a new coat of paint.

10. 10. Fetch your friend a chair.

11. 11. Fetch your friend to the party.

12. 12. Could you teach me how to do it?

13. 13. Don't keep the books too long; return them in due time.

14. 14. The neighbors asked me when I could return them their mower.

15. 15. His voice refused him.