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indirect object

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the part of the sentence that receives the direct object. An indirect object follows a preposition, e.g. in I gave it to her, it is the direct object, to the preposition and her the indirect object; or an understood preposition, e.g. in He gave her the flowers, flowers is the direct object and her the indirect object.)

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