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This document discusses indirect object pronouns in Spanish. It provides examples of sentences with indirect objects and identifies the subject, verb, direct object, and indirect object in each. It explains that indirect objects indicate who or whom the action is being done for. Common indirect object pronouns in English and Spanish are listed. Placement rules for indirect object pronouns are similar to direct object pronouns, following the verb.

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Iops

This document discusses indirect object pronouns in Spanish. It provides examples of sentences with indirect objects and identifies the subject, verb, direct object, and indirect object in each. It explains that indirect objects indicate who or whom the action is being done for. Common indirect object pronouns in English and Spanish are listed. Placement rules for indirect object pronouns are similar to direct object pronouns, following the verb.

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INDIRECT

OBJECT
PRONOUNS
1. Indirect Objects
• I bought that cake for her.
• You gave those forks to him.
• What is the subject, the verb,
the direct object and the
indirect object?
1.a Indirect Objects
• I bought that cake for her.
verb direct indirect
object object
subject
1.b Indirect Objects

• You gave those forks to him.


verb indirect
direct
object object
subject
Indirect Objects
• 2. The Indirect Object tells you
to whom or for whom the
action is being done.
• 3. IOs usually refer to people.
4. Indirect Object Pronouns
• a. Indirect Objects: the people
benefiting from the action.
• b. Pronouns: words that replace
a previously mentioned noun.
5. Indirect Object Pronouns
(English)
me us

you y’all

him/her them
6. Indirect Object Pronouns
(Spanish)
me nos

te os

le les
7. Placement Rules for Indirect
Object Pronouns
• Placement Rule #3:
• IOPs follow the same rules
as DOPs, both #1 and #2.
7. Placement Rule #3 Examples
(translate each sentence on the
blanks below)
• Yo le preparo sopa a mi mamá.
• Mis amigos me compran unos
maracuyás.
• Él nos cocina pescado con maíz.
8. Placement Rule #3, cont.
In sentences with two verbs, you
have two options.

Option #1, before the first verb:


• Yo le quiero preparar sopa a mi mamá.
Option #2, attached to the second verb:
• Mis amigos van a comprarme un helado.
9. Indirect Object Pronouns

• These are the same words


as we have used when we
learned the verb “gustar.”
• For example:
10. Indirect Object Pronouns

• A María le gustan las manzanas.


• Me gusta mucho el pollo.
• No nos gustan nada los postres.
• ¿A ti te gusta la carne con arroz?
11. Indirect Object Pronouns
• Sometimes we use
a + a person’s name
for emphasis or to make it
clear to whom we’re referring.
11. Indirect Object Pronouns
• Me gustan los maracuyás. ¿A ti
te gustan?
• A Pablo le gusta la leche.
• A Vds. les gusta el café, ¿no?

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