核心问题
You can recommend some books to the students. (Gurrey)
这个句子能否写成：
You can recommend the students to some books.
词典解答
recommend sth. to sb. 和 recommend sb. to sth. 这两个结构都是正确的, 只是前者用得多一些。下面便是一个例证:
Henley has also recommended me to Chambers' Encyclopaedia for Irish subjects. (Yeats) 关于爱尔兰问题,亨利还向我推荐了钱伯斯百科全书。