indirect object

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direct object | American Dictionary

direct object
noun[ C ]
us/dəˈrekt ˈɑb·dʒɪkt, dɑɪ-/
(in grammar) the word or phrase naming who or what receives the action of the verb:
In the sentence "I saw Mary," "Mary" is the direct object.

Examples of direct object

direct object
A verb distribution is a vector of nouns that appears as the verb's directobject.
If the human directobject is inherently without control, the genitive will be used.
To account for sentences such as (2), the temporal nature of the directobject is considered ' incorporated ' in the verb.
From the point of view of conveying meaning case marking on the following article is less essential than case marking on a directobject.
In addition, there are ditransitive verbs that appear to be able to incorporate their notional directobject.
Table 7 provides a summary of the children's use of directobject clitics.
The implausibility of the filler as the directobject of the verb did not appear to trigger syntactic reanalysis.
However, this verb is syntactically distinct from think, know, and say as it takes a directobject.
Next, overbuild takes as its directobject a location, rather than what is built.
They typically consist of a grammaticalized verb and a directobject.
Indeed, an examination of our corpus of maternal speech revealed only two such sentences, both with the non-iconic directobject- instrument order.
Subjects were more likely to express the affected object as the directobject of the novel verb.
Crucially, the progress of the event denoted by the predicate could be inferred by inspecting the state of the directobject.
The students in this group also received explicit information regarding directobject pronouns.
Future research must establish the plausibility of a developmental difference between singular and plural forms within the definite article and directobject clitic systems.
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