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Which describes the underlined word in the sentence?

Carlos gave HER(Underlined) the name Sky because of the color of her eyes.

A.
predicate adjective

B.
indirect object

C.
direct object

D.
predicate nominative

2 Answers

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The answer is indirect object

User Tigran Abrahamyan
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It is C, a direct object.
Direct objects follow after a transitive verb, in this case, gave is the transitive verb.
User Paachi
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