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the part of a sentence that tells us who or what receives the action of the verb. The object can be a direct object or an indirect object. See direct object, indirect object, subject, predicate and verb.
when a character in a play expresses thoughts which the audience hears, but which the other...
a punctuation mark used to indicate a pause, often necessary to clarify meaning, e.g. The...
in literature: the setting, atmosphere (mood) and context of a story.
a story, poem or fable in which characters and events represent something else, e.g. Animal Farm...
an adverb that tells us how something is done, e.g. They ran fast.