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