Every complete sentence needs a subject and a predicate (verb).
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A sentence can have more than one subject
and/or more than one verb.
("Plural" means more than one.)
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A sentence can also contain a direct object.
A direct object is the thing that is being acted upon by the subject - it receives the action of the verb.
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There can also be an indirect object.
Definition: A direct object is a noun or a pronoun that the verb in the sentence does something to.