Direct object is D. A NOUN, PRONOUN, OR WORD GROUP THAT RECEIVES THE ACTION OF THE VERB.
Direct object follows a transitive verb (action verb) not a linking verb. It is always placed after the verb not before it. It receives the action not modifies the action verb.
Salva was moving with the crowd of people without his family members. He was pretty sure that his uncle died because the men murdered his uncle righr before Salva's eye.
Marial and his uncle were not next to him and Salva himself knew that they would never be seen again.
His uncle shared the food with everyone around him, but things changed Salva had to beg people for food.
