
    A direct object is a grammatical relation that exhibits a combination of certain independent syntactic properties, such as the following: 
    - The usual grammatical characteristics of the patient of typically transitive verbs 
    - A particular case marking 
    - A particular clause position 
    - The conditioning of an agreement affix on the verb 
    - The capability of becoming the clause subject in passivization 
    - The capability of reflexivization 
   