Indirect Objects and Transitive Verbs

Indirect Objects and Transitive Verbs :

A transitive verb exerts its action on an object. The sentence with a transitive verb inhabits will not become complete without an object of the verb.

Sarah threw.

In this sentence, Sarah did something. She threw. But the sentence remains incomplete without noting what did she throw? Only when this sentence notes down what she threw, it becomes complete.

Sarah threw a ball.

In this sentence, there is an object of the verb. Only now, the sentence becomes complete.

So, many verbs need the objects for them to present their meaning in a complete manner.

1. She eats an apple.
2. They killed a lion.
3. John wrote a letter.
4. My father completed his graduation in this college.
5. I dropped my sister at her school.
6. We bought this house last year.
7. Mary is collecting stamps.

Forms of The Object

Most Transitive Verbs take a single Object. The Object to a Verb may be expressed in various different forms, the chief of which are the following.

1. Noun : The man killed a snake with his stick.
2. Pronoun : The man lifted me up out of the water.
3. Infinitive : He desires to leave us tomorrow.
4. Gerund : He disliked sleeping in the daytime.
5. Phrase : No one knew how to make a beginning.
6. Clause : We do not know who has come.

Position of The Object

A Noun denoting the Object to a Verb is usually placed after the Verb to which it belongs. But when the Object is a Relative or Interrogative Pronoun, it is placed not after, but before the Verb.

Relative Pronoun and Transitive Verb

The man whom I saw yesterday has come back today.

Interrogative Pronoun and Transitive Verb

What did you say?
Whom were you looking for?

Double Objects and Transitive Verbs

Some Transitive Verbs take objects after them, one of which is called the Direct Object and the other the Indirect Object.

The Indirect Object always stands first.

I forgave him (Indirect) his faults (Direct).
Can you find me a competent Secretary?
He gave the door a coat of paint.
He left the hospital a large legacy.

If the Indirect is placed after the Direct, it must be preceded by the preposition FOR or TO.

He taught English (Direct) to his son (Indirect).

But we can say He asked me for the book and I gave it (Direct) him (Indirect).

The Direct and Indirect Objects in the following sentences :

Bring me that book.
We allowed him two rupees.
He taught me English.
He refused me the loan of a book.
I have asked you a question.
They gave the boy a prize.
They sent the boy a book.
They lent me ten rupees.
They fined him ten rupees.
He owed me twelve rupees.
The man told me the story.
He left them all his property.
They played him a trick.
He promised me his help.
They sold him two horses.
He did me a great kindness.

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