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Meanings of intransitive verb in English
Russian
непереходный глагол Portuguese
predicação verbal Catalan
verb intransitiu Spanish
verbo intransitivo Verb that takes no grammatical objects.
Usage of intransitive verb in English
1
An intransitive verb is sometimes made transitive by the aid of a preposition.
2
An intransitive verb reflects back on the subject, it does not take an object.
3
Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.
4
He means not the transitive verb, lay but the intransitive verb, lie, which means recline.
5
What looks at first, therefore, like a copula turns out to be merely an impersonal intransitive verb.
6
An intransitive verb is one where the 'effect is confined within the subject, and does not pass over to any object.'
7
We began with some simple intransitive verbs: walking, jumping, speaking, writing.
8
Let the teacher write transitive and intransitive verbs on the board, and require the pupils to distinguish them.
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Translations for intransitive verb
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