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indirect object | American Dictionary

indirect object
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɪn·dəˌrekt ˈɑb·dʒɪkt, ˈɪn·dɑɪ-, -dʒekt/
grammar
the person or thing that receives the effect of the action of a verb that has two objects:
In the sentence "Give Jason some cake," "Jason" is the indirect object.

Examples of indirect object

indirect object
The grammatical function of some forms which may have different functions (indirectobject\\direct object) is specified in brackets.
Furthermore, this dialect can mark the indirectobject using either an accusative or a dative form of the pronoun.
The presence of an indirectobject significantly lowers the zero rate, in comparison with complements adjacent to the selecting verb or adjective.
Finally, in example (17) the direct object precedes the verb and the indirectobject follows it.
There was some debate, for example, about whether an indirectobject in an active sentence could serve as the subject of a passive sentence.
For example, each cannot come after a noun used as a direct object (you cannot say / saw them each) but can after an indirectobject.
This model would work for huge numbers of noun phrases in the subject, direct object, indirectobject and complement positions.
Thus, although it is an indirectobject, the antecedent is sufficiently accessible.
They are the syntactic subject, direct object and indirectobject of the verb.
A cross-product analysis of subject and indirectobject type was carried out.
Several productions of indirectobject clitics were noted in direct object clitic contexts.
An indirectobject is a dative object and a direct object is non-dative.
The positional case markers (subject, direct object and indirectobject) were also included in the case marker list.
These lexico-syntactic clues are either lexical (for example, a preposition that introduces a prepositional phrase) or positional (subject, direct object, indirectobject).
Indirectobject fillers were used in order to ensure that the putative gap was not directly adjacent to the subcategorizing verb.
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