Can anyone answer this?

Which word in the sentence is the indirect object?

After a short time, he had given them enough wooden animals for three toy zoos.

A.
animals

B.
time

C.
zoos

D.
them

Question

Can anyone answer this?

Which word in the sentence is the indirect object? 

After a short time, he had given them enough wooden animals for three toy zoos.
 
 A.
animals
 
 B.
time
 
 C.
zoos
 
 D.
them

anonymous · Answer

Indirect Object: a noun phrase referring to someone or something that is affected by the action of a transitive verb (typically as a recipient), but is not the primary object

In this sentence, "them" would be the IO (indirect object).