A verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object.
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Examples for "intransitive "
Examples for "intransitive "
1 A verb may be transitive in one sentence and intransitive in another.
2 The intransitive uses come from the dropping out of the reflexive pronoun.
3 We began with some simple intransitive verbs: walking, jumping, speaking, writing.
4 An intransitive verb is sometimes made transitive by the aid of a preposition.
5 Why are we so often tempted to speak of expression in this intransitive way?
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 .
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