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Indirect object   /ɪndərˈɛkt ˈɑbdʒɛkt/   Listen
Indirect object

noun
1.
The object that is the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb.






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"Indirect object" Quotes from Famous Books



... (2) As the indirect object of a verb, naming the person or thing indirectly affected by the action of the verb: ...
— An English Grammar • W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell

... believe they live, but see it." Hence it is evident how the glorified eyes will see God, as now our eyes see the life of another. But life is not seen with the corporeal eye, as a thing in itself visible, but as the indirect object of the sense; which indeed is not known by sense, but at once, together with sense, by some other cognitive power. But that the divine presence is known by the intellect immediately on the sight of, and through, corporeal ...
— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas



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