Direct Object Pronouns

How to talk about things or people already mentioned-

Purpose

• What do direct objects do?

- receives the action of the verb

- answers the question

whom or what?

(say…subject, verb then whom or what?)

• no need to keep repeating, repeating, repeating!

D.O. vs. D.O. Pronouns

Direct Objects

-can be replaced by a direct object pronoun

-located after conjugated verb

Direct Object Pronouns

-replaces direct object in a sentence

-3 possibilities for placement: before conjugated verb, attached to present participle or attached to an infinitive

Examples

I have the books.Subject: IVerb: haveWhom or what: the books I have them.Subject: IVerb: haveWhom or what: them

Ejemplos en español

Yo tengo los libros.

S: Yo

V: tengo

Whom or what: los libros

Yo los tengo.

S: Yo

V: tengo

Whom or what: them

Direct Object Pronouns en español

Masculine/singular

LO(him/it)

Feminine/singular

LA(her, it)

Masculine/plural

LOS(them)

Feminine/plural

LAS(them)

Direct Objects

• Hold up the direct object pronoun you would use in place of the following:• libros• vecinos/vecinas• comida mexicana• amigos/amigas• desayuno• piscina• el chicle• el chocolate• el español• libro• primo/prima• un guante de béisbol• las fiestas

¡Práctica!

1. My sister gives (dar) books to my uncle.2. Does my sister give them to my uncle?3. Your grandmother doesn’t invite (invitar) her neighbors.4. She doesn’t invite them.5. You are eating Mexican food.6. You are eating it. 7. She wants to leave (dejar) his friends.8. She wants to leave them.9. The students eat breakfast at school.10. Do we have to prepare it?