That was higher than I expected, but I noticed that hits for the indirect object form tended to cite archaic uses: a few from the Bible, one from Oedipus Rex and a 1928 essay about Calvin Coolidge.

JUNE CASAGRANDE Dear citizen Newport-Mesa: Congratulations on your recent secession from the United States of America.

An object usually appears after the verb. There are two types of objects in the English language: direct and indirect. A direct object takes or receives the action of the verb. In other words, the ...