The townspeople launched the boat into the rough waters.
The direct object in the sentence is THE BOAT.
Direct object is recipient of the action or verb.
Subject + Verb + Direct Object (answers the question What? or Who?)
Subject : Townspeople
Verb: launched
The townspeople launched WHAT? The boat.
It makes people safer instead of gathering in large crowds and breathing on each other when they scream or breath. It helps decrease the rate of the outbreak.
Answer: In this story (published in 1941), celebrated poet, novelist, and playwright Langston Hughes (1902–67) describes such an incident in the life of a talented and proud American high school student, Nancy Lee Johnson, whose family had moved from the Deep South to the North so that she might have better opportunities.
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