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The aim of this study is to represent the structure of English Double Object Constructions. To meet the goal, however, it is attempted to avoid using ad-hoc DOC-specific grammatical apparatus or functional category. Once it is permitted, we encounter another problem why we are not able to meet a verb construction which has three or more nominals complements. To meet the constraint, IO is forced to bear two theta roles in the course of its DOC derivation. However, once an argument, IO in DOC, is allowed to have more than one theta-role, it can be explained the peculiarity DOC has shown compared to other alternating 3-place verb constructions just only with grammatical apparatus and grammatical categories widely accepted in the field. Also the property of IO which has been proposed in the filed can help explain why IO has had shown different syntactic properties compared to other nominal complements. Furthermore, from this property it can be derived a constraint on deletion of copies at LF. However, it has to be clarified in further studies that what happens when an argument gets more than one theta-role between the theta roles in the same argument. It has stated that IO is able to bear creator role as well as possessor role depending on the nature of DO.