Sentence Pattern Three: Subject–Verb–Indirect Object ...

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The pattern is subject plus action verb plus indirect object plus direct object. Many times, the indirect object is found by asking To whom? or To what? after the verb and the direct object. The questions go like this: The subject did what to whom? Look at the examples to see this pattern. In these examples, the subjects are boldface, the

  Direct, Subject, Verb, Object, Subject verb, Direct object