According to certain linguistics considerations, these objects may be called direct and indirect, or primary and secondary.
In languages without morphological case (such as English for the most part) the objects are distinguished by word order and/or context.
: Alternatively, English grammar allows for these sentences to be written with a preposition (to or for): (See also Dative shift) The latter form is grammatically correct in every case, but in some dialects the former (without a preposition) is considered ungrammatical, or at least unnatural-sounding, when the direct object is a pronoun (as in He gave me it or He gave Fred it).
Sometimes one of the forms is perceived as wrong for idiosyncratic reasons (idioms tend to be fixed in form) or the verb simply dictates one of the patterns and excludes the other: In certain dialects of English, many verbs not normally treated as ditransitive are allowed to take a second object that shows a beneficiary, generally of an action performed for oneself.
Donor is always or nearly always in the same case as Agent, but different languages equate the other arguments in different ways:[citation needed]