--- 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 hit him :I becomes I.hit(him) However, the original term was a reference to "Using an OBJECT's method INDIRECTly", hence indirect object notation. Just to make things less simple. =Austin
