Indirect Objects and Indirect Object Pronouns

What's the difference between: I sent a letter to Joe and I sent Joe a letter?

They mean the same thing. Yet the first example has a prepositional phrase, "to Joe," that's replaced in the second example with something called an indirect object. Here's everything you need to know about indirect objects.

 

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