Things used as Direct Object.
349. The words used as direct object are mainly the same as those used for subject, but they will be given in detail here, for the sake of presenting examples:—
(1) Noun: "Each man has his own vocation." Also expressions used as nouns: for example, "'By God, and by Saint George!' said the King."
(2) Pronoun: "Memory greets them with the ghost of a smile."
(3) Infinitive: "We like to see everything do its office."
(4) Gerund: "She heard that sobbing of litanies, or the thundering of organs."
(5) Adjective used as a noun: "For seventy leagues through the mighty cathedral, I saw the quick and the dead."