Note: Want was formerly used impersonally with an indirect object.
The Dative of Reference, unlike the Dative of Indirect Object, does not modify the verb, but rather the sentence as a whole.
It is to be borne in mind that these verbs do not take the Dative by virtue of their apparent English equivalence, but simply because they are intransitive, and adapted to an indirect object.
The "indirect object" names the one to or for whom something is done.
An incomplete verb with a direct and an indirect object.
The complete predicate containing an incomplete verb of action may contain five parts; a verb, a direct object, an indirect object, an adverb and an adverb phrase.
Some verbs of giving, telling, refusing, and the like, may take two objects, a direct object and an indirect object.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "indirect object" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
