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| Dec 10, 2022 at 6:00 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Dec 9, 2022 at 14:55 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Hello. Peter. 'I gave Jill the book' has an indirect object (the noun 'Jill', which could be replaced by 'to Jill' {and necessarily postposed, so 'I gave the book to Jill'}) in addition to the direct object 'the book'. But in 'I drew a picture on the paper', 'the paper', within the prepositional phrase, is (nowadays) regarded as an oblique object and not an indirect object. See, for instance, this article by Jim Miller, 'An Introduction to English Syntax', at Almerja.net/. | |
| Dec 9, 2022 at 12:29 | history | answered | Peter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |