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Grammar Concept:

Indirect Object:

•the object that is the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb
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•A grammatical role of a ditransitive verb that usually manifests as a recipient or goal
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•Attributive form of indirect object, noun
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•a noun or pronoun after an action verb that answers one of the following questions: to whom,= for whom, to what, or for what?
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•A grammatical object representing to whom or what the action (verb) was carried out upon. For example, "me" is the indirect object of the sentence "He gave me an apple". Infinitive The basic form of a verb as in to work or work.
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For example, "I give pizza to my dog." "I" is the subject, doing the verb; "pizza" is the direct object (its being given); "my dog" benefits from the action (he gets pizza!).

In Latin, the indirect object is put in the dative case.

For example: "Dominus aquam servo dat" = "The master gives water to the slave."

Lectio Altera
Lines 30-60

Julius arrives home. He greets and is greeted by the boys. The doorman (ōstiārius) lets him in, and Syrus and Leander bring in the sacks full of apples and pears. The distribution of apples, from lines 45 to 60, is the world's best introduction to the dative as indirect object. So far, all indirect objects are masculine.

KEY GRAMMAR POINT: Dative of Indirect Object: