Cindy handed Lulu an ice cream.
ice cream is the direct object. If we ask the question what was handed the answer is ice cream.
Lulu is the indirect object. The indirect object is the one that can be turned round and expressed with to or for.
Cindy handed an ice cream to Lulu.
Sentences cannot have an indirect object without a direct object.
Which of these sentences contains an indirect object? *
give 5 sentences of direst object
No. In fact most sentences with direct objects don't have indirect objects.I ate the ice cream.I kicked the ball.Even sentences that do have an indirect object can usually be rewritten to use a prepostional phrase instead.I gave him a dollar.I gave a dollar to him.However, sentences that have an indirect object should always have a direct object.I gave him doesn't make much sense.I gave him a dollar is better.
The indirect object in your sentence is Michelle. (It answers the question to whom or for whom.)
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I gave her the love letter. Or, I gave the love letter to her.In both sentences, the direct object of the verb 'gave' is the noun 'letter' and the indirect object is the pronoun 'her'.
The sentence 'Tim invited you to a soccer game' is neither an indirect object nor a direct object. It is a sentence. It CONTAINS an indirect object ('a soccer game') and a direct object ('you'). It also contains a subject ('Tim'), a verb ('invited'), and a preposition ('to').
"They gave you a bonus" is the sentence which contains an indirect object.
There is no indirect object in the sentence "we recycle newspapers." The sentence contains a subject "we," a verb "recycle," and a direct object "newspapers."
Diagramming sentences is a lost art. An object or indirect object is the last word on the main line. An object is separated by a segment above the line. An indirect object will have a slanted segment above the line.
"They gave you a bonus" is the sentence which contains an indirect object.
Nouns and pronouns act as the subject, the direct object, or the indirect object of sentences, phrases, and clauses.