indirect object

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indirect object

An object indirectly affected by the action of a verb, as me in Sing me a song and turtles in He feeds turtles lettuce.

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indirect object

(Grammar) grammar a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase indicating the recipient or beneficiary of the action of a verb and its direct object, as John in the sentence I bought John a newspaper. Compare direct object

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in′direct ob′ject

a word or group of words representing the person or thing with reference to which the action of a verb is performed, esp. as beneficiary of the action or receiver of the direct object, as the boy in She gave the boy a book.

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Noun

indirect object - the object that is the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb

object - (grammar) a constituent that is acted upon; "the object of the verb"

Translations

مَفعول بِه غَيْر مُباشِر

předmět nepřímý

indirekte objekt

Dativobjekt

complément d’objet indirectobjet indirect

részeshatározó

óbeint andlag

indirekte objekt

nepriamy predmet

predmet v dajalniku

dolaylı tümleç

间接宾语

indirect object

n (Gram) → Dativobjekt nt

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indirect

(indiˈrekt) adjective

1. not leading straight to the destination; not direct. We arrived late because we took rather an indirect route.

2. not straightforward. I asked her several questions but she kept giving me indirect answers.

3. not intended; not directly aimed at. an indirect result.

ˌindiˈrectness noun

indirect object

the word in a sentence which stands for the person or thing to or for whom something is given, done etc. In `Give me the book', `Tell the children a story', `Boil John an egg', me, the children and John are indirect objects.

indirect speech

a person's words as they are reported rather than in the form in which they were said. He said that he would come is the form in indirect speech of He said `I will come'.

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86-87), to show that gender/number marking in the 3rd indirect object was already a marginal phenomenon in OI (pp.

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The two variants: tell +/- indirect object.--The deduction proceeds in the extremely unnatural environment "reported speech".

Natural Syntax: English reported speech

This is a grammar lesson concerning the "subject" and the "indirect object" in sentence construction.

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Because of the phenomena discussed in section 2.3 (Philippine systems, syntactic ergativity), the theory does not attribute cross-linguistic validity to the traditional grammatical relations of subject, direct object and indirect object, and therefore does not employ them as theoretical analytical constructs.

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Thus, the following may be added to the subject predicate sentence pattern: subject, predicate, direct object; subject, predicate, indirect object, direct object; subject, predicate, predicate nominative; and subject, predicate, predicate, predicate adjective pattern.

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To complicate things even further, indirect object pronouns are usually redundant in Spanish.

The acquisition of psychological-verb alternations in Spanish: two teaching approaches. (Language Teaching & Learning)

For example, one sometimes finds oneself wasting valuable class time explaining what a subordinate clause or an indirect object is, but a judicious reference to Emily Spinelli's book might well be a better option.