That was higher than I expected, but I noticed that hits for the indirect object form tended to cite archaic uses: a few from the Bible, one from Oedipus Rex and a 1928 essay about Calvin Coolidge.

An object usually appears after the verb. There are two types of objects in the English language: direct and indirect. A direct object takes or receives the action of the verb. In other words, the ...

JUNE CASAGRANDE Dear citizen Newport-Mesa: Congratulations on your recent secession from the United States of America.

It is shown that both subjects and indirect objects disallow sub-extraction in both English and Norwegian; however, unlike English, Norwegian allows the indirect object to Á-bar move. This relates to ...

This paper gives an in-depth analysis of a number of well-known verbal diathesis alternations (creation/transformation, locative and dative alternations), and specifically investigates the position of ...

Indirect object pronouns replace nouns to avoid repeating them two sentences in a row. An indirect object pronoun is used in the place of the indirect object of a verb.