{"id":4828,"date":"2020-02-08T18:20:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T18:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-spanish2\/chapter\/introduction-to-lo-completaste\/"},"modified":"2024-04-26T02:57:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T02:57:17","slug":"introduction-to-lo-completaste","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-spanish2\/chapter\/introduction-to-lo-completaste\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to \u00bfLo completaste?","rendered":"Introduction to \u00bfLo completaste?"},"content":{"raw":"A direct object is a noun or pronoun that directly receives or suffers the action of a verb. For example, in the sentence \u201cJuanito takes out the garbage,\u201d the garbage is the direct object of the verb, i.e. the noun that is being taken out (and Juanito is the subject of the verb, i.e. the noun that is doing the taking out). In English, the direct object always comes after the verb, and in Spanish this is almost always the case too.\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"translation\" title=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/course-building.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/Spanish\/in-text_audio\/U15\/juanito_saco_la_basura.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4100\/2019\/03\/22171914\/play.png\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span>Juanito sac\u00f3 la basura. (direct object = basura)<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"translation\" title=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/course-building.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/Spanish\/in-text_audio\/U15\/nosotros_pagamos_los_impuestos.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4100\/2019\/03\/22171914\/play.png\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span>Nosotros pagamos los impuestos. (direct object = impuestos)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nNot all verbs are used with direct objects! Verbs that do an action to something or someone use a direct object, and are called transitive verbs. Verbs that merely denote an action don\u2019t need a direct object and are called intransitive verbs.\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"translation\" title=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/course-building.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/Spanish\/in-text_audio\/U15\/ellos_vivieron_en_puerto_rico.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4100\/2019\/03\/22171914\/play.png\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span>Ellos vivieron en Puerto Rico. (intransitive: \u201cEn Puerto Rico\u201d is not the object of the action, it\u2019s just a prepositional phrase saying where the action happened.)<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yo corr\u00ed. (intransitive: <em>I just ran.<\/em>)<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"translation\" title=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/course-building.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/Spanish\/in-text_audio\/U15\/yo_comence_el_ensayo.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4100\/2019\/03\/22171914\/play.png\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span>Yo comenc\u00e9 el ensayo. (transitive: The essay is the direct object, it\u2019s what I started.)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nWhen speaking our native languages, we rarely notice this kind of grammatical category, but when learning a new language it helps a lot to be able to use grammatical terminology to define what kinds of words are used when. This will be very useful in the next section when we start exploring Spanish object pronouns.","rendered":"<p>A direct object is a noun or pronoun that directly receives or suffers the action of a verb. For example, in the sentence \u201cJuanito takes out the garbage,\u201d the garbage is the direct object of the verb, i.e. the noun that is being taken out (and Juanito is the subject of the verb, i.e. the noun that is doing the taking out). In English, the direct object always comes after the verb, and in Spanish this is almost always the case too.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"translation\" title=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/course-building.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/Spanish\/in-text_audio\/U15\/juanito_saco_la_basura.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4100\/2019\/03\/22171914\/play.png\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span>Juanito sac\u00f3 la basura. (direct object = basura)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"translation\" title=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/course-building.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/Spanish\/in-text_audio\/U15\/nosotros_pagamos_los_impuestos.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4100\/2019\/03\/22171914\/play.png\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span>Nosotros pagamos los impuestos. (direct object = impuestos)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not all verbs are used with direct objects! Verbs that do an action to something or someone use a direct object, and are called transitive verbs. Verbs that merely denote an action don\u2019t need a direct object and are called intransitive verbs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"translation\" title=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/course-building.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/Spanish\/in-text_audio\/U15\/ellos_vivieron_en_puerto_rico.mp3\" target=\"audio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4100\/2019\/03\/22171914\/play.png\" alt=\"Play Audio\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span>Ellos vivieron en Puerto Rico. (intransitive: \u201cEn Puerto Rico\u201d is not the object of the action, it\u2019s just a prepositional phrase saying where the action happened.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yo corr\u00ed. 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