He brings me water from the stream. Is "me" the subject or object? If "me" is the object then what is "water from the stream"? I know some of the rules are: Who/what is doing the action? "He" To whom/to what is the action being done? "me" And in all honesty this makes it seem like "me" is the object but then I still don't understand what "water from the stream" is.
He [Subject] brings [Verb] me [indirect object] water [Object] from the stream [Prepositional phrase.]
Hmm. "He" is the subject. I would say that the object is "water"--that's what's being brought. I suspect that if I had ever studied grammar, rather than just picked it up by reading a bazillion novels, I would know what "me" is.
I, like you, have read a bazillion novels. I thought this would automatically make me a good English tutor. Apparently, I was wrong. A student of mine asked me this question and I was totally stumped.
