Brazil, India, and a few African countries produce cashews. What is cashews in this sentence? direct object, indirect objects, predicate nominatives, predicate adjective?

direct object

Explanation:

Let's break this sentence down to the basic parts. Subject of the sentence is the doer, the answer to the question who?

In this example, subject is "Brazil, India and few African countries" because it performs the action, tells us who does the action.

Predicate is the verb. It tells us what the subject does. In this case we see that the subject "produces".

That only leaves us with "cashews". They answer the question "what is being produced" which makes them direct object.

Direct object denotes upon what the action is being performed.

the price of our current war is high; it costs money and it costs lives.

but it does not cost our pride. it does not cost the guilt that would arise from knowing that we did nothing to intervene while our neighboring nations fell to despotic leaders.

it does not cost the terror of knowing that our allies are unstable. it does not cost the fear that we, too, will be next to fall.

which sentence most accurately explains why the speaker's use of the parallel structure is effective in this passage?

a. it underscores that disagreement will not be tolerated and will be dealt with swiftly.

b. it makes the speaker seem like a decisive and capable leader.

c. it emphasizes reasons to fight and inspires listeners to aid the war effort.

d. it establishes the speaker's credibility by acknowledging the difficulties of war.

i suggest it is anadiplosis