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Recipient

From Teflpedia
Then Vice-President of the United States, Joe Biden (right), receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama in 2017. In this action, Biden is the recipient.

A recipient is a semantic role of someone (or something) that receives something as a result of an action.

For example, in "Alice sent a letter to Bob", Bob is the recipient.

In English, the recipient is typically expressed by the indirect object of a clause, e.g.

A distinction may sometimes be made between a recipient and a beneficiary, (e.g. I brought a present for my wife).

Also known as dative[1]

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