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Ditransitive Verb

Ditransitive verbs are verbs that take two objects, a direct object and an indirect object. For example, in the sentence "Haikal gave opal a fried rice," the verb "gave" is ditransitive - it takes the direct object "a fried rice" and the indirect object "opal." The indirect object indicates who receives the direct object. A preposition like "to" can also introduce an indirect object, as in "Lila sent an email to her dad." Ditransitive verbs allow sentences to express an action being done to someone or something.

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Ditransitive Verb

Ditransitive verbs are verbs that take two objects, a direct object and an indirect object. For example, in the sentence "Haikal gave opal a fried rice," the verb "gave" is ditransitive - it takes the direct object "a fried rice" and the indirect object "opal." The indirect object indicates who receives the direct object. A preposition like "to" can also introduce an indirect object, as in "Lila sent an email to her dad." Ditransitive verbs allow sentences to express an action being done to someone or something.

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Ditransitive verb

Another class of verb that join three elements of clause: the


subject, the direct object, and
the indirect object. As the name implies “di” its require two object. For
example.
Haikal gave opal a fried rice

the verb is followed by two noun phrases, opal and a fried rice. In a sentence with this structure it is the second noun
phrase, a fried rice, which is the direct object of the verb told; in other words a story is what is being told. The other
noun phrase, opal, is the indirect object (iO); in other words opal are the recipients of the direct object, a fried rice.

So far we have only looked at prepositional phrases which function as adverbials. Here we are showing another function;
that of indirect object. A constituent which functions as an indirect object then can have either the form of an NP and the
form of a

Lila sent an email to her dad

To is a preposition but in this sentence the role as an indirect object

http://www.aprendeinglesenleganes.com/resources/DITRANSITIVE
%20VERBS%20%28LIST%29%20.pdf

NP VP

N V NP PP

(ditrans)

DET N P NP

PRO N

Lila sent an email to her dad

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