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

The sentence "The shopkeeper sells lemons" has three parts: a subject, a verb, and an object. To find what "lemons" is, we first split the sentence into its grammatical parts.

1. object: The subject of the sentence is "the shopkeeper" (the one doing the action), and the verb is "sells" (the action itself). The word "lemons" is the thing that receives the action of selling, so it answers the question "sells what?" A noun that receives the action of a transitive verb like this is called the object of the sentence.
2. subject: The subject is the doer of the action. Here that role belongs to "the shopkeeper", not to "lemons", so this option does not fit.
3. predicate: The predicate is the part of the sentence that says something about the subject, and it includes the verb and everything that follows it ("sells lemons" as a whole). "Lemons" alone is only one word inside the predicate, not the whole predicate, so this option is wrong.
4. verb: The verb is the action word "sells". "Lemons" is a noun, not an action word, so it cannot be the verb.

Since "lemons" is the noun that receives the action of the verb "sells", it functions as the object of the sentence.

Let's summarize:

• Subject = the shopkeeper (does the action).
• Verb = sells (the action).
• Object = lemons (receives the action).

So the word "lemons" is the object, which matches option (A).