A verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object.
Designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object.
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?
6 An intransitive verb reflects back on the subject, it does not take an object.
7 Notice that a verb of incomplete predication may be of two kinds,-transitiveand intransitive .
8 Yes; not only the metal, but the verb intransitive .
9 Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.
10 He means not the transitive verb, lay but the intransitive verb, lie, which means recline.
11 The first of each pair of the above verbs is transitive, and the second is intransitive .
12 Verbs are of two kinds, transitive and intransitive .
13 The distinctions for animate and inanimate objects, and for transitive and intransitive , are illustrated by the following:
14 The verb "to scout" is intransitive in this case.
15 Whether they are transitive, or intransitive ; 4th.
16 What looks at first, therefore, like a copula turns out to be merely an impersonal intransitive verb.
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