In each example below, the preposition is bold and the object of the preposition is shaded. The noun (or pronoun) governed by a preposition (i.e., words like 'in,' 'on,' 'at,' 'by,' 'near') is known as the object of a preposition.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Every now and again, you might have to ask 'for or to what?' as opposed to 'whom?'.

When giving jewellery as a present, I'm giving protection to someone I care about.

Often, the words to or for will be present, making identification easier. (Q: Never tell 'how to do things' to whom? A: people) Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

(Q: Give the right shoes to whom? A: a girl)

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

In each example below, the direct object is bold and the indirect object is shaded. You can find the indirect object by finding the verb and direct object (see above) and then asking 'for or to whom?'. The indirect object is the recipient or beneficiary of the action (more often than not, it's a person). An object can be a single-word noun (e.g., dog, goldfish, man), a pronoun (e.g., her, it, him), a noun phrase (e.g., the doggy in window, to eat our goldfish, a man about town), or a noun clause (e.g., what the dog saw, how the goldfish survived, why man triumphed).

(Q: Eat what? A: our goldfish.))ĭon't forget that the term noun does not usually mean a single word. (That seems easy enough, but note that the direct object has its own verb and direct object. Q: Is recovering from what? A: a massive stroke)

My cat is recovering from a massive stroke.

The verb could be a phrasal verb (e.g., to put down, to give up, to recover from). Q: Don't eat whom? Have what? Eat whom? A: me, a wife and kids, and them) I have a wife and kids! Eat them! (Homer Simpson) Q: Don't have what? Don't know what? A: a bank account and my mother's maiden name.)

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

In each example below, the verb is in bold and the direct object is shaded. You can find the direct object by finding the verb and asking 'what?' or 'whom?'. This means that I can solve for the drop height of the ball.The direct object of a verb is the thing being acted upon. I can also get the total falling time from the video with a value of 2.04 seconds. This isn't 9.8 m/s 2 like I would expect, but it's close enough. So, a coefficient of -4.73 would give an acceleration of 9.46 m/s 2. The term in front of t 2 in the fitting equation would be 1/2 of the acceleration. Also, remember that the kinematic equation for an object with a constant acceleration (in the y-direction) is: Of course this is using the free video analysis program Tracker. Here is a plot of the vertical motion of that first fall. If I use a bowling ball diameter of 21.59 cm, the falling ball seems to have the correct acceleration. In this case, I will use the close up shot that shows the bowling ball and I will find the diameter. I can use that to find the scale of the video. Luckily, the video shows the same bowling ball and feather dropping with air and in real time. I don't know the distance scale and I don't know the frame rate.

The problem here is that there are two things I don't know. Since you know the acceleration should be -9.8 m/s 2, you can just find the correct frame rate to give you that acceleration. The basic idea is to look at a falling object. I've done this before with some of the MythBusters videos. Normally, I would take a video like this and find the real frame rate.

An object is ib free fall seems to be