The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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But bit by bit the language is taking shape, definite articles and nouns and indirect objects and verbs and prepositional phrases hanging off subjects and predicates and predicate complements like a Calder mobile.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016
Besides these indirect objects, +nouns denoting measure+, quantity, weight, time, value, distance, or direction are often used adverbially, being equivalent to phrase modifiers.
From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Brainerd Kellogg
But there are 86 also indirect objects at which we have to aim, and it is here, of course, that the speculative character of our inquiry is most clearly revealed.
From Armageddon—And After by W. L. (William Leonard) Courtney
These, therefore, are the real though indirect objects of such prayers; often unconsciously so, because the ordinary devotee has little capacity and less inclination to analyze the nature of his religious feelings.
From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Daniel Garrison Brinton
We treat these indirect objects, which generally denote the person to or for whom something is done, as equivalent to phrase modifiers.
From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Brainerd Kellogg
