What does IO stand for?

Indirect Object

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Information technology (IT) and computers

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The verb tell of the reporting clause takes an indirect object almost obligatorily referring to the addressee; for instance, She told him where she worked (Carter--McCarthy 2006: 806-807).

Natural Syntax: English reported speech

Impersonal verbs such as piacere and nuocere, while intransitive, are also bivalent, requiring a subject and an indirect object.

Francesco Sabatini and Vittorio Coletti. DISC Compact: Dizionario ...

With the verbs give, offer, and sell, the pattern indirect object + direct object is about four times more common than the pattern direct object + prepositional object (Biber et al.

Naturalness: some English (morpho)syntactic examples