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

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.

Report is the answer