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To form a negative statement,
use “do,” “does,” or “did” and the word “not” together
with the base form of the main verb.

Note that negative statements in the present tense can use
the contractions don’t (do not) and doesn’t (does not), and
negative statements in the past tense can use the contraction
didn’t (did not).

4.15 Verbs with Direct Objects

Verbs have another important job to do: They can take objects.
This chapter introduces direct objects only; objects of
prepositions will be explained in the preposition chapter.

Action verbs can take direct objects. These verbs can express
both physical action and non-physical action. Let’s look first
at verbs that express non-physical action. The following two
examples use the verb to love.

Andy loves is a basic sentence with a subject and a verb.

Basic Sentence

Subject + Verb

Andy loves.
A direct object
could be added to
make the meaning
more clear.

Many sentences require an additional word or group of words
in order to be considered a complete thought. This word or group
of words is called the direct object of the verb. Direct objects
were introduced in Chapter 1. Now we show you how the action
passes from a subject directly to the receiver.

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