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I am looking for the verbs in this sentences


God gives each believer a task. Is it gives and believer?

 

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The subject is underlined:

God gives each believer a task.

The word 'believer' is not a verb. It's a noun. We know this because we can replace it with another noun:

God gives each person a task.

Structure

God (subject) gives (verb) each (quantifier) believer (noun) a (determiner) task (noun)

Subject: God
Verb: gives
Indirect Object of the Verb: each believer
Direct Object of the Verb: a task

The direct object and the indirect object can be switched around, like this,

God gives a task to each believer.
God gives each believer a task.