Question

Is the word in bold a direct object, an indirect object, or neither?
We scoured the market [yesterday] for antiques.

Answer 1

In the sentence "We scoured the market [yesterday] for antiques," the word "antiques" is the direct object of the verb "scoured." The direct object answers the question "what?" or "whom?" after the verb. In this case, it answers "what did we scour for?"—the answer being "antiques." The phrase "the market" is not the direct object; it is the object of the preposition "for."

So to summarize, "antiques" is the direct object.