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Some English grammar books illustrate that the indirect object of some ditransitive verbs such as write and buy is not allowed to be passivized, and secondary school English teachers accordingly teach their students. To describe this linguistic aspect, I have conducted a survey on the passive of English DOCs among 20 high school students in the US. The survey exhibits a different result; only 2 out of 20 subjects respond that the passivization of the indirect object is ungrammatical. Some theoretical grounds such as Case and Ɵ-role assignment also lend support to the IO-passive movement. Nevertheless, its movement is not approved to be completely natural by the subjects. I attribute this to a diachronic observation that the passivization of IO has expanded from Old English up to the present. I also suggest that the trace of P, which is ‘active’, left by Preposition Incorporation somehow hinders its movement, and the degree of its being active varies across ditransitive verbs.