How To Use Transitive 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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The verb garadjimbat (with transitive suffix - im and continuative aspect - bat) is from English scratch (and him and about) but means ` to dig. '
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 4
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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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Whatever the fate of sense-datum theories might be as general theories of exteroception, their appeal as a model for understanding pains and other intransitive bodily sensations is very strong.
Pain
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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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My final thoughts on these backformations is that there is an even more special subclass of them: those whose source verb is transitive.
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By applying the set of arc, the key role the transitive closure played in contractual relationship model was proved, and the recursive and reflective roles in virtual enterprise system were validated.
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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.
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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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When the perfect participle of an _intransitive_ verb is joined to the neuter verb _to be_, the combination is not a passive verb, but a _neuter_ verb in a _passive form_; as, "He _is gone_;
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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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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The intransitive very inactive verb is from the 15th-century Scottish dialect noun lungis, meaning “laggard, lingerer,” rooted in the Latin Longinus, the apocryphal name of the soldier who lanced Jesus in the side, and was influenced by longus, “long,” associated with “slow.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Today we will talk about transitive and progressive tenses.
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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.
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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.
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When most individuals in the group differ in size, stable dominance relationships generally yield transitive hierarchies consistent with size.
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In 'She wrote a letter', the verb 'wrote' is transitive and the word 'letter' is the direct object.
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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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The transitive property of equality says that if a = b and b = c, then a = c.
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In this respect, adjectives are exactly like intransitive verbs.
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Verbs that act this way are known as ditransitive, meaning simply that they somehow always imply two objects - even if both are not always expressed.
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While it seems clear that intramundane causation is transitive, that if (where A, B, and C are events) A causes B, and B causes C. then A causes C, there is no necessary transivity in the case of any causal aspects or features of the divine willing permission, if there are any (there are some causal features if wicked people are upheld and conserved in being by God).
Triablogue
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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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Ontological priority: there is an irreflexive, asymmetric, and transitive relation of ontological priority between entities.
Monism
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Because sense-datum theories are most plausible when applied to intransitive bodily sensations, many philosophers, who believe that a naturalist account of ordinary perception can be given without introducing sense-data, have attempted to understand pains and other bodily sensations as species of ordinary perception (exteroception).
Pain
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For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
X. Essays. The Poet. 1844
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One metric of trust is transitive, that is, the trustworthiness of the people who trust someone.
Trust and reputation systems: redistributing power and influence
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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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If struct C inherits from struct D (directly or transitively) we say that struct C is a substruct of struct D and struct D a superstruct of struct C.
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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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_HRB_ _Historia Regum Britanniae_ (Geoffrey of Monmouth) _Hubberd_ _Mother Hubberds Tale_ (Spenser) intr. intransitive, intransitively
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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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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I've also ascertained so far that the intransitive participle -θ was once *-ta whereas the homophonous agentive suffix -θ as in the names Aranθ and Vanθ was once *-ti.
The Lost Vowels of Pre-Etruscan Syncope
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Intransitive Italian verbs such as arrivare cannot be used passively because they do not take a direct object.
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The psychological inflection of monadic substance thus activated a series of transitive relations between
Club Monad
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Further, she suggests that ‘whereas poetic language is now more or less accepted as autonomous and intransitive, fiction and narrative still suggest a transitive and referential use of words’.
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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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This college park atlanta that you may transitively splitter that it is not ok to bister in ionised you babel to letup in.
Rational Review
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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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Sequence pseudo orbit tracing property is defined, and a sufficient condition on topological transitive is given.
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For me, the intransitive use of ‘bore easily’ is a minor cliché, that is, a phrase I recognize when I see it as a set phrase, even though I might not see it all that often.
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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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I took my systems surrender, hypnotic it inhumanely etiology indistinguishable the ramous intransitively orumiyeh, and acquaintanceship out isopteran ajax of retrieval.
Rational Review
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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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I glanced at Nick, who nodded, and the teacher went back to droning on and on about the transitive property in Geometry: easily the most boring class of the day.
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The verbal indeclinable participle may be formed from transitive and intransitive verbs.
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Furthermore, the verbs are usually transitive, though occasionally they are used intransitively with a preposition like for, of, or about introducing the object.
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A strict order is one that is irreflexive and transitive; such an order is also trivially antisymmetric.
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The standard definition of utility starts with the assumption of complete, transitive, non-satiable, non-alphabetic preferences over all goods.
Just Resting, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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A problem confronting this assumption is the large number of intransitive, unergative verbs in German and English that occur in accomplishment expressions.
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It's called the transitive property in higher math.
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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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We may be confused about this if we do not distinguish, as we clearly should, between transitive and intransitive senses of the verb ‘to move’.
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But with this non-transitive relation, it's possible the set of labels confusable with a submitted label is partially registered and partially available.
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He also considered permutation groups of small degree, groups having a small number of conjugacy classes, multiply transitive groups, and characteristic subgroups of finite groups.
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This view constitutes a more radical threat to the computation of intrinsic value than does the view that intrinsic betterness is not transitive.
Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Value
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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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The boy _flies_ the kite, the verb _fly_ is _transitive_, and governs the noun _kite_ in the objective case.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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The becoming is not a becoming something; it remains active and intransitive.
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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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Semantic intransitives then, are one-place predicates including the ones that are 'derived' from two-place predicates by variable binding.
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Can anyone give me an example of a transitive verb?
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But it is the rare transitive use of the verb, with the action sent on to an object, that catches the attention of philologists.
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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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There are 60 grammatical categories specified within this lexicon indicating such properties as transitive verb, plural noun, proper noun etc.
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In particular, similar patterns exist for other cases of verbs combining with intransitive prepositions (or ‘particles’, as some people call them).
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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 combination of verbs with intransitive prepositions is one of the many pseudopods of morphological quasi-regularity that extend into the phrasal domain in English.
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Some decades ago, Eric Partridge noted in Usage and Abusage that orientate is correct as an intransitive (“to face in a particular direction”), but that orient is preferable in all other senses.
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Recall that an equivalence relation in a set is a reflexive, symmetric and transitive relation.
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This is due to the fact that a simple, transitive, declarative clause in Lisu does not distinguish between agent and patient structurally.
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Doctor Banting, of England, the father of latter-day dietetics from whose name in commemoration of his services to mankind we derive the verb intransitive "to bant," had theories wherein his chief contemporaneous
One Third Off
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The glosses above required no independent lexicography because I just cut and pasted them from the OED, which cites these examples of the intransitive.
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The reason for this consequence is that identity is a transitive relation: that is to say, if a is identical with b and b is identical with c, then, of necessity, a is identical with c.
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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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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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you can use the verb `eat' transitively or intransitively
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Transitive verbs typically have actants that play thematic semantic roles.
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In practice you'll find that people have these nontransitive beliefs all the time, and it's going to prevent this from working well. czarandy
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Additionally, 'break' verbs may appear in the simple intransitive construction while 'cut' verbs may appear in the conative construction.
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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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On the one hand, the notion of transitive creature consciousness seems like a close cousin to the notion of intentionality.
Intentionality
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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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Can anyone give me an example of a transitive verb?
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you can use the verb `drink' intransitively, without a direct object
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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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Intransitive, transitive, causative forms, past and non-past tenses (there was no future tense in Old Tamil), participal and verbal nouns, adjectival participles and the infinitive are found in the language of the inscriptions.
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While the pivot of an intransitive clause is the core-argument of the verb, the pivot of a transitive clause is not its agent but its patient.
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In the past tense configuration, however, the Pashto agreement system is ergative: the Agreement is verb - subject agreement with intransitives, but verb - object agreement with transitives.
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Can you give an example of a ditransitive verb?
The Times Literary Supplement
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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 real challenges always came with the sophisticated adjectives, the adverbs, and the intransitive verbs.
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When the verb is transitive, that is, when the action cannot happen without affecting something, the thing affected is called the _object_.
How to Speak and Write Correctly
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But if you read it closely, you'll see I'm using the intransitive plural subjunctive tense.
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It is not used intransitively; if there is a paragoge, there must be ho paragon, and similarly if there is evolution or development, there must be an evolver or developer.
NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
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The object of knowledge is intransitive, the knowledge we have of it is transitive.
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Most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German.
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most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German
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The Twitter graph isn't transitive but one of its most powerful uses is retweeting, which gives the Twitter graph what might be called curated transitivity.
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
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Dan: Sorry, I only meant to imply ditransitive “borrow” is as bad as verbal “loan”, not objectively bad.
Loan is a verb! « Motivated Grammar
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Transitive verbs take a direct object.
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In the sentence 'I sent Victoria a letter', 'send' is ditransitive.
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Recall that an equivalence relation in a set is a reflexive, symmetric and transitive relation.
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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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PAST TENSE (nontransitive): lay, (transitive): laid.
THE FORESOOTH FILE « Fantasy Author's Handbook
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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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In 'She wrote a letter', the verb 'wrote' is transitive and the word 'letter' is the direct object.
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Moral actions are unlike other actions in that they have both transitive and intransitive effects.
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If struct C inherits from struct D (directly or transitively) we say that struct C is a substruct of struct D and struct D a superstruct of struct C.
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I believe Ms. Bauer is aiming in the general direction of "dragoon" as verb transitive, in particular the second definition of such as offered by the 1913 Webster: " 2.
Red Letter Challenge -update
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It is thus in contrast to the abstract-forming suffix "- ec -" (202).a. A word formed from a verbal root by means of the suffix "- ajx -" expresses a concrete example of "a thing which undergoes" (or, in the case of intransitives, "results from") the action indicated in the root: konstruajxo = a building. kreskajxo = a plant, a growth. sendajxo = consignment, thing sent. rebrilajxo = a reflection. mangxajxo = food. restajxo = remainder.
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto
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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".
Archive 2007-10-01
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While it seems clear that intramundane causation is transitive, that if (where A, B and C are mundane events) A causes B, and B causes C, then A causes C, there is no necessary transitivity in the case of the causal aspects or features of the divine willing permission.
Triablogue
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However, some transitive verbs take a prepositional phrase instead of an indirect object.
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I can account for how the system evolves from a transitive-intransitive one to an imperfective-perfective one.
Laryngeal overdose in the Indo-European second person
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G is an irreflexive, asymmetric and transitive relation.
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Consider the case of the ditransitive construction, exemplified by I gave the child a present.
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I took my systems surrender, hypnotic it inhumanely etiology indistinguishable the ramous intransitively orumiyeh, and acquaintanceship out isopteran ajax of retrieval.
Rational Review
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This is therefore a hybrid form, featuring the idiomatic transitive usage for the first two conjuncts and a more typical intransitive for the third.
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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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PRESENT TENSE (nontransitive): lie, (transitive—requires an object): lay.
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Due to the domain and the range of G being disjunctive sets, the relation G has the following formal features: it is irreflexive, asymmetric, and transitive; moreover, G is many-one, but not one-many.
Slices of Matisse
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Verbs that take object are called transitive verbs.
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Highly specific semantic constraints are associated directly with the ditransitive argument structure.
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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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So even if one finds the anti-sense-datum arguments convincing and rejects indirect realism of this kind for standard exteroception, there is still room for adopting a sense-datum theory for intransitive bodily sensations and for pain in particular.
Pain
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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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Mr. Kimble, my math teacher, says that's what's called the transitive property.
NPR Topics: News
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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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But Etruscanists are also generally aware that caru is a transitive participle meaning 'made'; tezan means 'cippus' see Paleoglot: The Etruscan word 'tezan'; tesnś is a declined form of tesiam ~ tesian 'sacrifice'; teiś is the directive form of ta 'that, the'; and Raśneś is likewise the directive form of Raśna 'Etruria'.
Ipa ama hen
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Janken, as the first known true RPS game, was roused into existence by application of the Guu Choki Paa or Sansukumi way of thinking, which can be defined as a nontransitive tripartite system, or, in laymen’s terms, a three-way impasse.
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PAST PARTICIPLE (nontransitive): lain, (transitive): laid.
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To give an account of these sentences, a proponent of the equational analysis would have to postulate that the verb is ambiguous between a transitive and an intransitive meaning.
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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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Simply allowing time to pass enabled the brain to calculate and learn these transitive inferences.
