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Meanings of intransitive in English
Portuguese
predicação verbal A verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object.
Portuguese
intransitivo Usage of intransitive in English
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A verb may be transitive in one sentence and intransitive in another.
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The intransitive uses come from the dropping out of the reflexive pronoun.
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We began with some simple intransitive verbs: walking, jumping, speaking, writing.
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An intransitive verb is sometimes made transitive by the aid of a preposition.
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Why are we so often tempted to speak of expression in this intransitive way?
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An intransitive verb reflects back on the subject, it does not take an object.
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Notice that a verb of incomplete predication may be of two kinds,-transitiveand intransitive.
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Yes; not only the metal, but the verb intransitive.
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Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.
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He means not the transitive verb, lay but the intransitive verb, lie, which means recline.
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The first of each pair of the above verbs is transitive, and the second is intransitive.
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Verbs are of two kinds, transitive and intransitive.
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The distinctions for animate and inanimate objects, and for transitive and intransitive, are illustrated by the following:
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The verb "to scout" is intransitive in this case.
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Whether they are transitive, or intransitive; 4th.
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What looks at first, therefore, like a copula turns out to be merely an impersonal intransitive verb.
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