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  • A transitive verb is a verb that accepts one or more objects, for example, 'to enjoy' in Donald enjoys music. This contrasts with intransitive verbs, which...
    13 KB (1,618 words) - 14:14, 10 November 2023
  • intransitive verb is a verb whose context does not entail a direct object. That lack of transitivity distinguishes intransitive verbs from transitive verbs, which...
    13 KB (1,783 words) - 18:19, 5 January 2024
  • intransitives, transitives, ditransitives and double transitive verbs. Some verbs have special grammatical uses and hence complements, such as copular verbs (i.e...
    20 KB (2,580 words) - 15:37, 11 May 2024
  • expressed by the verb. An unaccusative verb's subject is semantically similar to the direct object of a transitive verb or to the subject of a verb in the passive...
    28 KB (3,557 words) - 14:32, 4 October 2023
  • In grammar, a ditransitive (or bitransitive) verb is a transitive verb whose contextual use corresponds to a subject and two objects which refer to a...
    9 KB (1,230 words) - 11:00, 4 February 2024
  • linguistics, a labile verb (or ergative verb) is a verb that undergoes causative alternation; that is, it can be used both transitively and intransitively...
    41 KB (5,454 words) - 01:55, 28 April 2024
  • Causative (redirect from Causative verb)
    sentence. The subject of an intransitive verb is S, the agent of a transitive verb is A, and the object of a transitive is O. These terms are technically not...
    66 KB (8,513 words) - 10:07, 25 March 2024
  • reflexive form. In many languages, reflexive constructions are rendered by transitive verbs followed by a reflexive pronoun, as in English -self (e.g., "She threw...
    26 KB (2,445 words) - 13:36, 23 March 2024
  • predicate, content verbs being typical predicates. Valency is related, though not identical, to subcategorization and transitivity, which count only object...
    20 KB (2,690 words) - 04:11, 1 May 2024
  • linguistics a lexical verb or main verb is a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs. Lexical verbs typically express...
    2 KB (149 words) - 14:19, 9 August 2021
  • Passive voice (redirect from Passive verb)
    sense of a verb into a passive sense is a valence-decreasing process ("detransitivizing process"), because it syntactically turns a transitive sense into...
    22 KB (2,692 words) - 19:08, 29 October 2023
  • In linguistics, transitivity is a property of verbs that relates to whether a verb can take objects and how many such objects a verb can take. It is closely...
    12 KB (1,212 words) - 00:41, 17 April 2024
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    discrete entries in modern dictionaries. These verbs can be transitive or intransitive. If they are transitive, i.e. if they have an object, the particle...
    25 KB (3,059 words) - 10:15, 15 December 2023
  • transitive verb or a finite intransitive verb can function as the root of an independent clause. Finite verbs are distinguished from non-finite verbs...
    11 KB (1,432 words) - 19:27, 2 April 2024
  • classifications are, Verb Transitive Animate (VTA), Verb Intransitive Inanimate (VII), Verb Transitive Inanimate (VTI), Verb Animate Intransitive (VAI). Verb Intransitive...
    25 KB (1,960 words) - 09:54, 27 April 2024
  • transitivity or transitive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Transitivity or transitive may refer to: Transitivity (grammar), a property of verbs that...
    2 KB (239 words) - 23:01, 14 November 2020
  • of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb, and differently from the agent ("subject") of a transitive verb. Examples include...
    46 KB (4,497 words) - 09:34, 21 April 2024
  • verb-object-subject order but also the affixes for each verb: That sentence displays a transitive verb with markers, indicating agreement in phi features for...
    48 KB (5,693 words) - 20:55, 13 May 2024
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    interrogatives, transitivity, valency, polarity, telicity, volition, mirativity, evidentiality, animacy, associativity, pluractionality, and reciprocity. Verbs may...
    34 KB (2,204 words) - 00:41, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Google (verb)
    the dominance of the Google search engine, to google has become a transitive verb. The neologism commonly refers to searching for information on the...
    8 KB (759 words) - 01:45, 8 May 2024
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