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indirect object

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indirect object
n.
An object indirectly affected by the action of a verb, as me in Sing me a song and turtles in He feeds turtles lettuce.
indirect object
Noun
Grammar the person or thing indirectly affected by the action of a verb and its direct object, as John in the sentence I bought John a newspaper
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Noun1.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"
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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 ... by Rubio, Fernando / Academic Exchange Quarterly
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