Grammar Quesiton.?

Indirect object.

Take The Sentence:

Cities Offer People a wide variety of Activities'

In the given sentence: What is the Subject?: Cities

What is the Verb / predicate: Offer (transitive verb ---because it has objects)

Can you fix the Direct Object?

Yes, it is 'a wide range of activities'

Is there an Indirect Object in the Sentence?

Yes, there is one.

What is it?

'PEOPLE'

Why is it called indirect object?

Because it answers 'to who' / 'to whom'

Offer to whom? To the People. So it is known as INDIRECT OBJECT.

Answer: In the given sentence 'People' is an 'INDIECT OBJECT'.

Source: Sound Grammatical Knowledge & Memory.

In the sentence, "Cities offer people a wide variety of activities." what is "people"?

Subject: Cities

Verb: offer

(To find the direct object, ask: What do cities offer?)

Direct object: Variety

(To find the indirect object, ask: to whom?)

Indirect object: People

I'm gonna go with indirect object. Cities offer activities -- that makes activities the direct object. People, therefore, is the indirect object.

I am, however, willing to be wrong. It's only been, oh, forty years since I diagrammed a sentence.

Indirect object.

Indirect object.

'People' is an indirect object, because you are really saying offer TO people - i.e. you're not picking THEM up and offering them to someone.

it is a common noun .It means that the cities offer the people (means men,women etc.)variety of activities.

the cities don't offer crap. the are not capable of it. however, people who run the businesses in a city can offer visitors or those who live there, a wide variety of activities. am i a smart ***? don't answer that.

if i am nnot mistaken..it would be indirect object..i suppose activities would be the direct answer..sorry if i am wrong