How To Use Transitive verb In A Sentence
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English is called a nominative-accusative language because both transitive and intransitive verbs take subjects.
Behind Bars | ATTACKERMAN
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most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German
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The intransitive verb may be used passively with the preposition as an adverbial adjunct, as in 'I despair of success'.
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Most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German.
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The real challenges always came with the sophisticated adjectives, the adverbs, and the intransitive verbs.
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Any halfway decent teacher should be able to explain the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs.
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Can you give an example of a ditransitive verb?
The Times Literary Supplement
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In the sentence 'I tried to persuade him, but he wouldn't come', 'come' is an intransitive verb.
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Can anyone give me an example of a transitive verb?
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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
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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
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Transitive verbs typically have actants that play thematic semantic roles.
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i remember the first time we heard the word mewl in some class at school, and found out what it meant. something struck a chord, something hummed inside me ... an audible click. it is an intransitive verb that means to cry weakly, or whimper. there was finally a word for what that noise in my head was ...
Vampishone Diary Entry
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And although I did a bit of a double-take, I soon got the idea of what was meant by that stunningly ungrammatical sleeps obedience - with its intransitive verb assigned a direct object in defiance of all syntactic decency.
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Verbs can be either transitive or intransitive a transitive verb governs an object, whereas an intransitive verb does not.
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There are 60 grammatical categories specified within this lexicon indicating such properties as transitive verb, plural noun, proper noun etc.
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The first part of the utterance seems to be in English, except for the verb rub which has been given the Tok Pisin suffix - im, which marks transitive verbs.
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Transitive verbs take a direct object.
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_ A verb whose action passes over to the object directly, as in the sentence above, is called a «transitive verb».
Latin for Beginners
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Verbs that do not take object are called intransitive verbs.
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Verbs can be either transitive or intransitive a transitive verb governs an object, whereas an intransitive verb does not.
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The construction ‘the shiraz impresses’ seems to be elliptical, with an implied object complement that is not expressed, rather than being a genuinely intransitive verb.
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The case serves the more general purpose of marking attribution, whether it be signalling ownership or reception as through ditransitive verbs like tur "to give".
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However, some transitive verbs take a prepositional phrase instead of an indirect object.
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This film shows transitive verbs their everyday life.
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For the true writer, he had once declared, to write is an intransitive verb: one does not write something, one simply writes.
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Verbs that take object are called transitive verbs.
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A grammar of Japanese will tell you that a transitive verb is positioned after its object, not before, because you couldn't guess that if no one told you.
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The real challenges always came with the sophisticated adjectives, the adverbs, and the intransitive verbs.
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When did it become cooler to be an intransitive verb than a transitive verb?
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But readies for does not occur at all, and the six occurrences of readied for are all passives (so they illustrate the transitive verb).
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In Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) for example the ergative case is used to mark subjects of transitive verbs and possessors of nouns.
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Thus, transitive verbs in idiomatic expressions frequently will not passivize (the cowboy kicked the bucket, but not * the bucket was kicked by the cowboy).
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 4
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An ergative system is one in which the subject of an intransitive verb is treated grammatically like the direct object of a transitive verb, while the subject of a transitive verb is treated differently.
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The past participle of a transitive verb is always passive except in such forms as _have chosen, had chosen_.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
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It should be a ditransitive verb, meaning that it takes two objects, one in the accusative and one in the genitive.
Archive 2008-03-01
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Earlier forerunners rely entirely on intransitive or quasi-transitive verbs, with the object preceded by a preposition.
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-- [MS.M. erased.] [440] [For the use of "dapple" as an intransitive verb, compare
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4
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So, when we place a noun before a verb as actor or subject, we say it is in the _nominative case_; but when it follows a transitive verb or preposition, we say it has another _case_; that is, it assumes a new _position_ or _situation_ in the sentence: and this we call the _objective_ case.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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Transitive verbs take a direct object.
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If we interpret put as a ditransitive verb similar to tur 'to give', we can gain insight into Etruscan grammar.
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A transitive verb takes an object.
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This shows that tular is indeed a transitive verb meaning "to mark (a boundary); marking" and is only ever a noun in the sense of a deverbal noun "a marking; a boundary" (as in Selvansl Tularias).
The Etruscan word 'tezan'
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An ergative system is one in which the subject of an intransitive verb is treated grammatically like the direct object of a transitive verb, while the subject of a transitive verb is treated differently.
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It appears that an extra element *-e has been added to this absolutive set at an early stage of PIE, perhaps to use it for transitive verbs by marking it with a dummy object nb.
Archive 2007-12-01
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It may have something to do with animacy whereby an inanimate noun (which hil is proven to be in Etruscan due to plural hilχva attested in the Liber Linteus) probably cannot be treated as the subject of a transitive verb and therefore is dethroned to a position after the verb to specify mere agent of the action instead (like a kind of 'afterthought', let's say) while still treated as an unmarked nominative noun.
Archive 2008-04-01
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a frequent (or common) error is using the transitive verb `lay' for the intransitive `lie'
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However, some transitive verbs take a prepositional phrase instead of an indirect object.
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In this respect, adjectives are exactly like intransitive verbs.
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Can anyone give me an example of a transitive verb?
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Later she will learn about transitive and intransitive verbs, but in this exercise she could see that the verb cards weren't all alike.
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Transitive verb: 1. To subject to laser light: e.g. he lased the tissue during surgery.
Lasers – etymology, history, future progress
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Can anyone give me an example of a transitive verb?
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In the same way as mentioned above, the sentence: "He likes books" consists of three tagmemes -- the `subject' slot filled by a pronoun, the `predicate' slot filled by transitive verb, and the `object' slot filled by a noun.
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On the one hand, we can analyse the expression as a regular verb phrase, consisting of a transitive verb followed by its nominal direct object.
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Any halfway decent teacher should be able to explain the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs.
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Places to look for ditransitive verbs include the translations of give, sell, and tell.
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O'Connor gives both analyses (intransitive verb and ellipsis of the object), and I think that the second one is probably right and the first one is probably not.
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Now some transitive verbs have the luxury of governing two objects, a direct object and an indirect object; let's call them ditransitive.
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Any halfway decent teacher should be able to explain the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs.
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Any halfway decent teacher should be able to explain the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs.
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The verbal indeclinable participle may be formed from transitive and intransitive verbs.
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The OED records uses of supple as a transitive verb, meaning ‘to soften or mollify a wound,’ from 1526 to 1688.
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It is inconceivable that Will does not know the difference between a transitive and an intransitive verb.
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Verbs can be either transitive or intransitive, a transitive verb governs an object, whereas an intransitive verb does not.
