Question

What role does the bolded pronoun serve in the following sentence?

After you have served yourself some mashed potatoes, could you please pass them to me?

Answer 1

What is the bolded part?

Answer 2

Direct object

Step-by-step explanation:

As you said in a previous comment that the word to be analyzed is THEM it can be said that that word functions as a direct object in the sentence.

A direct object has the function of being the recipient of the verb. You can discover the direct object of a sentence by asking the question Verb + what? In the example given you should ask yourself "pass what?" And the answer is "Them" (it is making reference to the potatoes)