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English Double object verbs (Ditransitive verbs)

Hello English learners! 😃

In today's lesson, we're going to study English verbs that can have two objects.

We call them also "Distransitive verbs".

A ditransitive verb is a verb that takes both a direct object and an indirect object.

The Double Object Construction

In English, some verbs have 2 objects:

1. an indirect object 
2. and a direct object.

Subject	Verb	Indirect object	Direct object
She	brought	her father	some fruits.
My husband	sent	her	a letter
She	cooked	all her friends	a delicious cake.

These clauses have the following structure:

VERB + NOUN (indirect object) + NOUN (direct object)

List of Ditransitive Verbs

Verb	Sentence Example
ask
bake
bear
begrudge
bet
book
bring
buy
carve
cook
cost
do
envy
excuse
feed
fetch
find
fix
forgive
get
give
hand
kick
knit
lend
mail
make
order
owe
paint
pass
pay
read
sell
send
serve
set
sew
ship
show
sing
teach
tell
throw
toss
write

Sources

• https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/english-grammar-reference/double-object-verbs
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgGwcr4zFCc

Related Lessons

• Quantifiers
• Prepositions of Position
• Turn an Adjective into an Adverb
• ADJECTIVES
• Abstract nouns and concrete nouns
• CONJUNCTIONS → Correlative Conjunctions
• Prepositions of Direction
• Punctuation
• After as an adverb
• Confusion between Adjectives and Adverbs
• Questions
• More Uses of the Dash
• Subjunctive mood
• Countable and Uncountable Nouns
• DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS