Question

Read the sentence. Sally Ride wrote a report on the future of the U.S. Space program. Which word is the direct object? future space report program

Answer 1

Report is the answer

Answer 2

The answer is: report.

The direct object is the person or thing affected by the action of the transitive verb it follows. It can be a noun, pronoun, phrase or clause, and it can be found by identifying the verb and asking the question "what?" or "whom?"

In the example sentence, the verb wrote affects the noun report.