Clarification of an article in the Reference Section: Direct / Indirect Object Pronouns

Question

After reading a question and the answers regarding object pronouns earlier this morning, I thought I should do a little more reading about these and prepositions. So I looked in Reference Library and started reading the 'Prepositions' article under the Grammar Section.

One of the examples for usage of the prepostion 'a' says.......

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"to introduce an indirect object (to, for)

Le di el regalo a Celia. (I gave the gift to Celia.)

Compré los tomates a Anita. (I bought the tomatoes for Anita.)"

My question is, shouldn't the 2nd example include the i.d.o pronoun for Anita? ie

Le compré los tomates a Anita

Am I confusing myself again! Your comments would be appreciated.

Answer 1

"Compré los tomates a Anita" sounds strange, incomplete. I'd definitely add "le".

thank you for confiming my understanding, Lazarus. I will pm one of the admin and ask them to change the article - billygoat, Apr 6, 2011

Answer 2

I have pm'd Heidita on this, so I will leave it up to her to decide if the reference article should be amended.

Thanks for your input on this guys.

thanks billy, I will be all over it after lunch, jeje - 00494d19, Apr 6, 2011

Answer 3

I would agree with Lazarus . it does look strange and incomplete in its present state

In addition, I have been watching Paralee's video lesson on Direct and Indirect object in the last two days yesterday and she mentions that

''If there is an indirect object there must be an indirect object pronoun'':

The direct object pronoun is tomatoes and the indirect object pronoun is Anita

so yes, you should include an indirect object pronoun

I hope this also helps

The lesson says there must be an indirect object pronoun, but the RAE doesn't. - lorenzo9, Apr 6, 2011

Well ,I have been learning from Paralee If she is wrong about this please let her know, Lorenzo However she may have been correct at teh time she made the videos but if they include inaccurate details then they will need to be updated :) - FELIZ77, Apr 6, 2011

She provides the simplified rules that are on most Spanish learning sites. The actual rules are more complicated and you can read them at the link I gave. - lorenzo9, Apr 6, 2011

Answer 4

[official rules for atonic pronouns](http://buscon.rae.es/dpdI/SrvltConsulta?lema=pronombres personales atonos)