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direct object (DO): the object that is usually next to the verb, having a theme or patient theta role in the most typical case, e.g. Botanics in I study Botanics.

indirect object (IO): the object that has the beneficiary theta role in double-object constructions, in such structures it is the that IO appears next to the verb preceding the DO: I sent him a parcel. In this structure the IO is him.

prepositional object: an object that appears after a preposition, e.g. him in I went to the theatre with him.