Where are the Indirect and Direct objects?

Question

I need help. I am trying to locate the direct and indirect pronouns within the sentence located below. And I also want to know why "a" is positioned at the beginning and why "les" is positioned before a third person singular conjugation of the verb "enfriar?"

"A mis abuelitos siempre se les enfriaba la sopa porque les gustaba mucho platicar."

Answer 1

"A mis abuelitos siempre se les enfriaba la sopa porque les gustaba mucho platicar."

This is a passive construction in which basically the soup was always going cold on them because they liked talking too much.

Les in both cases refers to mis abuelitos, and that is an indirect object, it is happening to them.

So they need a personal a (real people as objects need a personal a- they are not the subject of either verb). Your subject is the soup- which is going cold (passive construction- in a sense it is cooling itself, but some people will take umbrage at putting it that way) so se is a reflexive pronoun referring to the soup. And that is why the verb enfriar is conjugated 3rd person singular- to la sopa.

The soup was always going cold on my grandparents because it was too pleasing to them to talk.

I really don’t see a direct object anywhere. Platicar is the subject of gustar. (talking was too pleasing to them).