> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:12:48 -0800 (PST) > From: Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- attriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could someone explain how to know what's the indirect object? (who > > knew > > the "sentence diagramming" would be USEFUL!!) > > Short version: > > If there's two people in the sentence, the verb-ee is either the direct > or indirect object. If there's two people and a thing, the -ee is > indirect. > > I hit him. (He's the direct object.) > > I gave the ball to him. (Ind.) > > In reality, the reference to "indirect object" is a bogus equivalence, > because we're really making the SUBJECT of the sentence, as
And the one we're modeling it after in Perl is: I gave him the ball. In Perl 6: gave him: the ball; But a better sentence to use as an example here would be a command, as most imperative (computer) languages use: Give the ball to him. Or equivalently, Give him the ball. In Perl 6: give him: the ball; And as you can see, it is no longer a misnomer. The subject is implicitly "you" or (in a Star Trek sense) "computer". > hit him :I > > becomes > > I.hit(him) I don't think so. Rather, that becomes: him.hit(I); And to clarify, you should probably format it like this: hit him: I; But computer languages aren't generally used to specify past tense anyway.... To summarize, the indirect object goes I<between> the verb and the direct object, before the colon. Luke
