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Tell Me Another - Verbs With 2 Objects
Build ESL Medium confidence with everyday English word order, using natural phrases to place objects clearly and make spoken and written sentences sound smooth.
1 .
Choose the answer which best fills the gap/s using good, clear, accurate English.
'I'll ask my brother to ... ... , to go in your garden.'
'I'll ask my brother to ... ... , to go in your garden.'
... build you a bird-box just like ours ...
... build a bird-box just like ours for you ...
... build for you a bird-box just like ours ...
... build a bird-box for you just like ours ...
Any of the other Answers would be possible, but less natural, except Answer 3 which we would never say.
2 .
Choose the answer which best fills the gap/s using good, clear, accurate English.
'Would it help if I ... ... for your coffee, later ?'
'Would it help if I ... ... for your coffee, later ?'
... left you some milk ...
... left some milk for you ...
... left you any milk ...
... left for you some milk ...
Answer 2 is also possible, but it stacks-up two 'for ...'-groups in a row, which is not very tidy style.
3 .
Choose the answer which best fills the gap/s using good, clear, accurate English.
We have been teaching ... ... for several years.
We have been teaching ... ... for several years.
... students English ...
... English to students ...
... students to English ...
... students for English ...
Answer 1 is the shortest, simplest and clearest; Answer 2 is possible. The other two do not make ready sense.
It would also, of course, be possible to say 'we teach English students' ; but that suggests that the students are themselves English, and therefore (presumably) learning something else.
It would also, of course, be possible to say 'we teach English students' ; but that suggests that the students are themselves English, and therefore (presumably) learning something else.
4 .
Choose the answer which best fills the gap/s using good, clear, accurate English.
'When she was 18 her father ... ... '
'When she was 18 her father ... ... '
... bought a car.
... bought she a car.
... bought her a car.
... bought a her car.
When the Indirect Object is a pronoun, it usually comes before the noun which is the Direct Object.
5 .
Choose the answer which best fills the gap/s using good, clear, accurate English.
(...) But that was the one and only time he bought ... ... ; after that, she had to pay for her own!
(...) But that was the one and only time he bought ... ... ; after that, she had to pay for her own!
... one for her ...
... her one ...
... a her car ...
... a car her ...
Answer 2 is also possible: 'one' = 'a car' (i.e. one unit of what we were referring to before, which was cars).
6 .
Choose the answer which best fills the gap/s using good, clear, accurate English.
'If you're short of CDs, I can easily lend ... ... .'
'If you're short of CDs, I can easily lend ... ... .'
... him them.
... us any.
... you some.
... them it.
Again, the Indirect Object ('[to] you') comes first; 'some' = 'some discs'.
7 .
Choose the answer which best fills the gap/s using good, clear, accurate English.
'I have always loved this holiday cottage, and was delighted when my grandparents offered ... ... for our honeymoon.'
'I have always loved this holiday cottage, and was delighted when my grandparents offered ... ... for our honeymoon.'
... it me ...
... me it ..
... it us ...
... us it ...
There would be two people involved in the honeymoon (presumably!), so we change the agreement of the Indirect Object ('me') to the plural form ('us'); 'it' ( = the house) comes later, as the Direct Object.
8 .
Choose the answer which best fills the gap/s using good, clear, accurate English.
'Pick any card, but please don't show ... ... !'
'Pick any card, but please don't show ... ... !'
... it to me.
... me it.
... them to us.
... it to them.
Answer 2 is also possible, but the magician is probably more likely to use Version 1 because the most important part of his trick is that you do not show the card ('Don't show it'') ~ so the 'show it' needs to be kept close together to emphasise the importance of that.
9 .
Choose the answer which best fills the gap/s using good, clear, accurate English.
'We wish ... ...
And a Happy New Year!'
(This is the refrain of a popular Christmas carol)
'We wish ... ...
And a Happy New Year!'
(This is the refrain of a popular Christmas carol)
... a Merry Christmas to you ...
... to you a Merry Christmas ...
... you a Merry Christmas ...
... a Merry Christmas you ...
We usually 'wish somebody something' in English, such as wishing them a safe journey.
10 .
Choose the answer which best fills the gap/s using good, clear, accurate English.
There is a famous end-of-evening song, whose chorus begins :
' ... ... !'
There is a famous end-of-evening song, whose chorus begins :
' ... ... !'
'Show the way home to me'
'Show me the way to go home'
'Show the way home to us'
'Show the way to my home'
You may hear this sung (probably more as a joke) at the end of a party!
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