indirect object

1. 1.

   the object that is the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb

   Broaderobject

Questions about indirect object

What does indirect object mean?

indirect object means "the object that is the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb".

Is indirect object a common word?

indirect object is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.