Coaches give hockey players facemasks to protect them from injuries.

identify the indirect object in the sentence.

players

them

injuries

facemasks

How do you find the direct object in a sentence?

Checking Your Work. Ask yourself “whom” or “what” is receiving the action. Try to remember that the direct object in a sentence is always a thing or a person who received the action of the verb. For example, in the sentence, “Alice baked her mother a cake.”

How do you find the indirect object in a sentence?

To find the indirect object of a sentence, you must first find the direct object. Using the three‐step process discussed earlier to locate the direct object, a fourth step is added to identify the indirect object: To identify the verb of the sentence, ask yourself what action is taking place.

its them. an indirect object is an noun that the action is refering to but its understood what its talking about if that makes sense. like for example; if susan cant swim she needs to stay out the pool. in that she is the indirect object. 

the answer to "what does the narrator realize by the end of the story" is b.

for me this my answer o fortunately, they did not notice, and i could pretend not to care.​   i hope this you