Indirect objects in English grammar are words, phrases, and clauses that indicate to or for whom or what the action of a ditransitive verb is performed.
Indirect object is a grammatical function.
The grammatical forms that can function as the indirect object in English grammar are noun phrases, prepositional phrases, verb phrases, and noun clauses.
Indirect objects are constituents of the predicate.
Sentences with indirect objects must also have direct objects.
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