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She gave the intern a checklist. — Indirect object: the intern.
8 Indirect Object Examples
Use these examples to study structure, specificity, tone, and variation. They are demonstrations—not claims about a real person or organization unless the example itself makes that explicit.
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What to notice in the examples
Correct indirect-object structures make who receives something clear and help writers choose naturally between double-object forms and prepositional alternatives using to or for.
- Use a verb that can take both a recipient and a thing transferred, communicated, or created.
- Place the indirect object before the direct object in the double-object pattern.
- Use a to or for phrase instead when that pattern sounds clearer or is required.
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We sent the client the revised estimate. — Indirect object: the client.
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The teacher read the class a short passage. — Indirect object: the class.
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Please save me a seat. — Indirect object: me.
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He wrote his sister a note. — Indirect object: his sister.
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The editor offered the author two options. — Indirect object: the author.
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They built the community a new footbridge. — Indirect object: the community.
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Can you show us the final layout? — Indirect object: us.
Keep the underlying decision or pattern, then replace the subject, evidence, relationship, constraints, and tone with details that belong to your situation. If your final line still works after swapping only one noun, it may be too close to the example.