Question

'The shopkeeper sells lemons.'
In this sentence, the word 'lemons' is the .

• A. object
• B. subject
• C. predicate
• D. verb

Hint:

Identify the subject (doer), verb (action), and object (receiver of the action) in the sentence.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

Step 1: Break the sentence into its grammar parts.
The sentence is "The shopkeeper sells lemons." Every simple sentence has a subject (who or what does the action), a verb (the action word), and, if the verb is transitive, an object (who or what receives the action).

Step 2: Find the subject and the verb.
"The shopkeeper" is doing the selling, so it is the subject. "Sells" names the action, so it is the verb.

Step 3: Find the object by asking "sells what?"
Asking the verb "sells" the question "what?" gives the answer "lemons". A noun that answers this "what" question after a transitive verb is called the direct object.

Step 4: Rule out the other choices.
"Lemons" cannot be the subject because it is not performing the action. It cannot be the predicate because the predicate is the full verb phrase "sells lemons", not a single noun. It cannot be the verb because it names a thing, not an action.

Final Answer:
"Lemons" receives the action of the verb, so it is the object of the sentence. \[ \boxed{\text{object}} \]