What are direct object and indirect object and subject complement and object of preposition?

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what are direct object and indirect object and subject complement and object of preposition?

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With a transitive action verb, like "to hit," the thing you hit is the direct object.
I hit my brother.

Sometimes there's another object involved. The action is "to" or "for" someone.
I gave my sister a present. I gave a present to my sister. Both of these forms have the same meaning.
The present is the direct object; my sister is the indirect object.

I hit my brother a fly ball. (My brother is the indirect object in this case.)

If the verb is a "being" verb rather than an action verb, what follows it is called a complement, and often refers back to the subject:
My brother is very strong. (There's no action here.)
"Is" is a being verb, and the complement "very strong" tells what my brother is.

In these examples, the first word is a preposition and the last word is its object:

up the hill
under the bridge
behind the barn
above the clouds
between the lines

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