Indirect object of participle?

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Luckysquirty

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Offering the candy to the child, the lady smiled.

Could "child" be the indirect object of the participle "offering"?
 

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In "Offering the child the candy", 'the child' is the indirect object of 'offering'.

And the child is also the indirect object of Offering in the original example, I assume. Is that right, Paul Matthews?

The direct object of Offering is the candy.


Edit: I'd like to retract the part highlighted in blue, as it seems that I was mistaken. I'm leaving this post up, though, for the sake of the coherence of the thread.
 
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In the original example, Offering the candy to the child, there is no indirect object.

Are you sure? Okay.

Some references would say that there is. I wasn't sure.
 
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