Some transitive verbs take two objects \u2013 a direct object and an indirect object. In this case, the direct object usually refers to a thing and indirect object refers to a person.<\/p>\n
Examples of common verbs that take two objects are: give, take, tell, ask, offer, make, get, sell, buy, and teach.<\/strong><\/p>\n Two verb patterns are possible.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In this case, we put the preposition to or for before the indirect object.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some transitive verbs take two objects \u2013 a direct object and an indirect object. In this case, the direct object usually refers to a thing and indirect object refers to a person. Examples of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[252],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-verbs-with-two-objects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Indirect object before direct object<\/h2>\n
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\n Subject<\/td>\n Transitive verb<\/td>\n Indirect object<\/td>\n Direct object<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n The teacher<\/td>\n asked<\/td>\n him<\/td>\n a question.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n The boy<\/td>\n bought<\/td>\n me<\/td>\n some apples.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n He<\/td>\n told<\/td>\n me<\/td>\n a story.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n She<\/td>\n showed<\/td>\n me<\/td>\n the photo.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n I<\/td>\n sent<\/td>\n him<\/td>\n the message.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n They<\/td>\n offered<\/td>\n him<\/td>\n a good job.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n She<\/td>\n gave<\/td>\n me<\/td>\n her laptop.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n I<\/td>\n handed<\/td>\n him<\/td>\n the letter.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n I<\/td>\n made<\/td>\n him<\/td>\n \u00a0coffee.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Direct object before indirect object<\/h2>\n
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\n Subject<\/td>\n Transitive verb<\/td>\n Direct object<\/td>\n Preposition<\/td>\n Indirect object<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n The teacher<\/td>\n asked<\/td>\n a question<\/td>\n to<\/td>\n \u00a0him<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n The boy<\/td>\n bought<\/td>\n some apples<\/td>\n for<\/td>\n \u00a0me<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n He<\/td>\n told<\/td>\n a story<\/td>\n to<\/td>\n \u00a0me<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n She<\/td>\n showed<\/td>\n the photo<\/td>\n to<\/td>\n \u00a0me<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n I<\/td>\n sent<\/td>\n the message<\/td>\n to<\/td>\n \u00a0him<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n They<\/td>\n offered<\/td>\n a good job<\/td>\n to<\/td>\n \u00a0him<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n She<\/td>\n gave<\/td>\n her laptop<\/td>\n to<\/td>\n \u00a0me<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n I<\/td>\n handed<\/td>\n the letter<\/td>\n to<\/td>\n \u00a0him<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n I<\/td>\n made<\/td>\n coffee<\/td>\n for<\/td>\n \u00a0her<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n