NOUN
- a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical
How To Use transitive verb In A Sentence
- Anscombe had drawn attention to the fact that perceptual verbs satisfy the tests for non-extensionality or intensionality (see the entry on intensional transitive verbs). The Problem of Perception
- most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German
- Most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German.
- The real challenges always came with the sophisticated adjectives, the adverbs, and the intransitive verbs.
- Any halfway decent teacher should be able to explain the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs.
- Can you give an example of a ditransitive verb? The Times Literary Supplement
- In the sentence 'I tried to persuade him, but he wouldn't come', 'come' is an intransitive verb.
- Can anyone give me an example of a transitive verb?
- The fact of the matter is that want is a transitive verb, and hence requires an object, whether that object is a noun phrase, or a non-finite clause (formed with an infinitive), as in We want to learn English. G is for Gerund « An A-Z of ELT
- Transitive verbs take a direct object.