In normal English syntax, an indirect object appears between the verb and the direct object.
Yes. We may say Give me the book or Give the book to me.
Certainly. 'Please give me that plate.' This is an alternative to 'Please give that plate to me.'
Yes, an indirect object can come before a direct object in a sentence. For example, "She gave him the book." "Him" is the indirect object receiving the book; "the book" is the direct object being given.
In a sentence, a direct object receives the action of the verb directly, while an indirect object receives the action indirectly.
In the sentence, the indirect object typically receives the direct object. Some common words that function as an indirect object include pronouns like 'him,' 'her,' 'them,' or nouns that come after the verb and before the direct object, such as 'Mary' in "I gave Mary the book."
Yes. We may say Give me the book or Give the book to me.
Certainly. 'Please give me that plate.' This is an alternative to 'Please give that plate to me.'
Yes, an indirect object can come before a direct object in a sentence. For example, "She gave him the book." "Him" is the indirect object receiving the book; "the book" is the direct object being given.
In a sentence, a direct object receives the action of the verb directly, while an indirect object receives the action indirectly.
In the sentence, the indirect object typically receives the direct object. Some common words that function as an indirect object include pronouns like 'him,' 'her,' 'them,' or nouns that come after the verb and before the direct object, such as 'Mary' in "I gave Mary the book."
no an indirect obj must come between the subject and direct objFrom Kenwg:Actually, the direct object usually comes between the subject and the indirect object.Consider: "He gave the ball to us"He = subjectgave = verbthe ball = direct objectto = prepositionus = indirect object pronoun.Of course, you could say "He gave us the ball", in which case the positions of the direct and indirect objects are indeed reversed - "us", the indirect object, is between the subject and the direct object. But it is not correct to say the either "must" come in one position or the other.In Kenwg's first example, "to us" is a prepositional phrase, and "us" is a prepositional object rather than an indirect object.To the original questioner, I'm not sure. The best I can come up with off the top of my head is something like "John showed Dick[IO] Dick[DO].", where John might be holding a mirror up; but that has both objects being the same fellow. I don't believe an indirect object can actually be a direct object—not without being specified separately.See also Russell's paradox.The indirect object always goes before the direct object. The order shows which is the direct or indirect.The indirect object can be changed into a phrase beginning to or for .
In a sentence, a direct object receives the action of the verb directly, while an indirect object receives the action indirectly.
The normal English construction is either: Give the money ( d.o.) to Bill (i.o.), where the direct object comes before the indirect object; or Give Bill the money, where the indirect object comes before the direct object. . There is no correct construction in English where a direct object precedes the indirect object without a preposition between them.
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.
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Indirect objects are best seen as having the word 'to' omitted. In "He gave him an apple" the direct object is 'an apple' and the indirect object is 'him'. It really means 'to him'. So indirect objects are nouns or pronouns.
In a sentence, a direct object receives the action of the verb directly, while an indirect object receives the action indirectly.