No thanks, I already ate.” Direct objects are easy. Indirect objects, on the other hand, aren’t exactly what I thought. I had always believed they required prepositions. “I sang to him.” ...

An object usually appears after the verb. There are two types of objects in the English language: direct and indirect. A direct object takes or receives the action of the verb. In other words, the ...

That’s when Liz ceases to become the object of the preposition and instead becomes an indirect object of our verb.

The reflexive works to establish the idea that the subject is not the verb's direct object but simply an indirect object or intermediate receiver of the action: "I picked some books for myself." ...

This paper gives an in-depth analysis of a number of well-known verbal diathesis alternations (creation/transformation, locative and dative alternations), and specifically investigates the position of ...

dative case - the indirect object of the sentence or when used with certain prepositions ...