OXFORD PRACTICE GRAMMAR 3 sau đây là giáo trình lý thuyết tiếng anh và bài tập áp dụng từ cơ bản đến nâng cao , nhằm giúp các bạn có thể tự mình ôn tập và củng cố thêm về nền tảng kiến thức môn Anh văn , tự tin đạt kết quả tốt trong kỳ thi ngoại ngữ | OXFORD PRACTICE GRAMMAR 3 DIRECT AND INDIRECT OBJECTS A Introduction Henry gave Claire some flowers. Here the verb give has two objects. Claire is the indirect object the person receiving something. Some flowers is the direct object the thing that someone gives. Here are some more examples of the two structures. INDIRECT OBJECT DIRECT OBJECT Emma gave Rachel a CD. I ll send my cousin a postcard. We bought all the children an ice-cream. DIRECT OBJECT Emma gave the CD I ll send a postcard We bought ice-creams PHRASE WITH TO FOR to Rachel. to my cousin. for all the children. B To or for We give something to someone and we buy something for someone. We can use to with these verbs bring feed give hand lend offer owe pass pay post promise read sell send show take teach tell throw write Vicky paid the money to the cashier OR Vicky paid the cashier the money. Let me read this news item to you. OR Let me read you this news item. We showed the photos to David OR We showed David the photos. We can use for with these verbs book bring build buy choose cook fetch find get leave make order pick reserve save They found a spare ticket for me. OR They found me a spare ticket. I ve saved a seat for you. OR I ve saved you a seat. Melanie is making a cake for David OR Melanie is making David a cake. C Give pronoun Sometimes there is a pronoun and a noun after a verb such as give. The pronoun usually comes before the noun. Henry is very fond of Claire. He gave her some flowers. We use her because Claire is mentioned earlier. Her comes before some flowers. Henry gave some flowers to Claire. Here give has a direct object some flowers and a phrase with to. To comes before Claire the person receiving something. Henry bought some flowers. He gave them to Claire. We use them because the flowers are mentioned earlier. Them comes before Claire. 3 EXERCISES l Give A Look at the Christmas presents and write sentences about them. Put one of these words at the end of each sentence necklace scarf .
