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Can a sentence have an indirect object without having a direct object?
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∙ 13y ago
Of course it can. He spoke to me has no direct object.
It also doesn't have an indirect object: "to me" is a prepositional phrase (and "me" is a prepositional object).
There is an example of a sentence with an indirect object but no direct object, but only in American: "*Write your grandmother.", meaning "Write to your grandmother.". (When folks on television say, "Write this address!", I want to complain that I've tried writing the address but it just sits there on the piece of paper...!)
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∙ 13y ago
Yes, a sentence can have an indirect object without a direct object. For example, in the sentence "I gave Mary a book," "Mary" is the indirect object and "a book" is the direct object. Removing "a book" still leaves a grammatically correct sentence: "I gave Mary."
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