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Meanings of transitive in English

Portuguese
predicação verbal

A verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical.

predicação verbal
Portuguese
transitivo

Designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning.

transitivo
Usage of transitive in English
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A verb may be transitive in one sentence and intransitive in another.
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Now tell me everything you know about dipolar computers and transitive circuits.
The waste lands
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Mr. Van Heerlen appeared unfazed by the transitive declaration of his love.
Rakes and radishes
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I decided to try a transitive verb; substituting object words might clarify things.
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An intransitive verb is sometimes made transitive by the aid of a preposition.
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Finally the sixth axiom of congruence is that the relation of congruence is transitive.
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Daiyatam is an accusative which, like, Samayam is governed by the transitive verb Kurvita.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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Activate the transitive verbs and engage the ablative of separation.
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Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.
Orthodoxy
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He means not the transitive verb, lay but the intransitive verb, lie, which means recline.
The new yorker
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The first of each pair of the above verbs is transitive, and the second is intransitive.
Practical Grammar and Composition
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It is properly used as a transitive verb, but in conversation is very often used intransitively.
A Collection of College Words and Customs
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This transcendence is what gives knowledge its cognitive and useful essence, its transitive function and validity.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress
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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:
History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan / A Gramm...
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Whether they are transitive, or intransitive; 4th.
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