| 单词 | transitive |
| 例句 | Presumably Bill Clinton, who uttered the first sentence while running for president in 1992, would never have said Give I a chance, because a noun phrase next to a transitive verb is obviously accusative. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z If I ever use "progress" or "action" as a transitive verb, please shoot me. Etcetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice ? reviews 2011-08-12T21:55:02Z That’s your best friend and mine, and through the transitive property, we were gifted each other, in a way. How Natasha Lyonne and Lizzi Bougatsos Became Best Friends 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Although it was used in the 16th century, in all of Shakespeare’s works “worry” appears just once—as a transitive verb denoting strangling or choking. Did I lock the back door? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z One transitive moment is not the time to look back and assess - it's anything but. Motherlode Blog: Going Back to Work is Frequently a Challenge for Parents Who've Been at Home With Young Children 2012-10-18T13:36:15Z This demonstrates the fundamental difference between a talk-variety show where the title delineates the host by using a preposition, "with," instead of a transitive verb, i.e, "starring." Leslie Jones blazed brightly on "The Daily Show." But is a star really what its new era needs? 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Psychology calls this concept of collective record “transitive memory,” and research suggests we’ve invited computers to be part of the process. Meet your future memory aid: The internet 2013-09-12T16:15:00Z To paraphrase the members of the Supreme Court, though, even if you can’t say specifically what a transitive nightfall of diamonds is, you know one when you see one. My Grateful Dead romance: My favorite polyphonic jam, one more time for us all 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z I use “divorce” not as a noun but as a transitive verb because, as I watched my mother in the months that followed, the divorce felt like something my father did to her. One upside to the divorce I didn’t want 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z No longer does the outward merely track the inward: by an almost forgotten transitive process, the two have become one. The Ugly Truth 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z For the duration of this article, we are going be using “feminist” as a transitive verb. Emma Watson’s Beauty and the Beast is a good start – we need more feminist fairytales 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Anthony Alofsin’s “Wright and New York” traces the transitive relationship of the architect and the city, as well as the genesis of the bohemian culture of the East Village. How Susan Sontag Influenced Patti Smith’s Reading Life 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Which, by the transitive property of television, I guess makes Looking the gay Seinfeld? TV Weekend: HBO’s Looking 2014-01-16T17:35:39Z You and I while we can, through the transitive nightfall of diamonds? My Grateful Dead romance: My favorite polyphonic jam, one more time for us all 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z By the transitive property of TV, “Dietland” has some similarities to “Mr. Robot,” a drama whose borrowings from “Fight Club” include flights of surrealism, an anticonsumerist spirit and a mysterious terror group. The Fashion Closet, Seen From Inside and Out 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z As the Northwest continues to develop and change, the region’s transitive state — Briggs’ “loss inside of loss of loss” — seems continuously ripe for deconstruction, or, for fans, something closer to pilgrimage. Best of the decade: ‘Twin Peaks,’ the Northwest’s pioneering mystery, returned to television — and North Bend, to court a new generation of fans 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z It’s not hard because I trust in that transitive property, that if it matters to me and resonates with me, it will likely resonate with someone else. St. Vincent Talks Her New Album 'MASSEDUCTION' 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z “So I guess by the transitive property, I will take that as a compliment.” Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? An Investigation 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Many relations encountered in life exhibit the opposite, transitive property: If Alicia is older than Bruno and Bruno is older than Cassandra, then Alicia is older than Cassandra. How Warren Buffett Rigged a Dice Game with Bill Gates 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Missing hyphens or incorrect capitalization, ambiguities about singular and plural nouns or transitive and intransitive verbs — no question is too insignificant. Exclusive secrets of the National Spelling Bee: Picking the words to identify a champion 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Missing hyphens or incorrect capitalization, ambiguities about singular and plural nouns or transitive and intransitive verbs - no question is too insignificant. Exclusive secrets of the National Spelling Bee: Picking the words to identify a champion 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z But Battlefield bowed out to Colonial Forge, and Patriot settled for revenge via transitive property. Wise takes longer road to usual perch in state semifinals 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z So did the Argentine military turn “disappear” into a transitive verb and the ocean into a mass grave. The Singular Offense of the Mass Grave 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z That’s a valid deduction because the relation “is older than” obeys the transitive property. How Warren Buffett Rigged a Dice Game with Bill Gates 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The Boilermakers were coming off an upset of Iowa when the Hawkeyes were ranked No. 2, but let’s hold off on applying the transitive property in this case. College football picks: No. 8 Michigan State edges No. 6 Michigan; Utah beats UCLA 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Should one manage to vault ahead of such a legend, one becomes, by way of the transitive property, a legend oneself. ‘He Knows It All Because He’s Seen It All’ 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z If you want to play the transitive wins games: No. 23 Iowa State lost to Louisiana-Lafayette, which then lost to Coastal Carolina. AP Top 25 Reality Check: Who’s best or rewarding success? 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z But it is a legitimate transitive verb: I looked it up. Opinion | Kids can’t write. Parents, this is your chance to help. 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Intransitive dice surprise our intuitions because the relation “typically rolls higher than” is not transitive, even though it seems like it should be. How Warren Buffett Rigged a Dice Game with Bill Gates 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Trust me, the way they slackline at Muscle Beach, it’s a crazy transitive action word. In SoCal, fitness isn’t just a fix, it’s a lifestyle: 'You can't sleep under your bed' 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z White House lawyers, in contrast, simply used their time to declare that Trump is a victim and, by the transitive property of right-wing aggrievement, that the entire Trump base is a great mass of victims. Trump's lawyers make their case: White-dude whining and persecution fantasies 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The man is a transitive verb, a frantic genius and maybe even a darkly comic psycho — as are many of the great American filmmakers. Want to kick-start the Oscars? Let Tarantino direct the live telecast 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z That made sense, by a kind of transitive property of ingenuity: during his lifetime, Edison patented a record-setting one thousand and ninety-three different inventions. The Real Nature of Thomas Edison’s Genius 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Do you want to guess whether transitive or intransitive dice are more common? How Warren Buffett Rigged a Dice Game with Bill Gates 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Slate is a proud Oklahoman and, by the transitive property, a big Sooners guy. Oklahoma fan stuck in traffic sneaks Texas dig into hilarious roadside interview - Golf Digest 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z By the transitive property, it's a matter of if, not when. PGA Championship 2019: 11 highly plausible ways that Brooks Koepka can blow it at Bethpage - Golf Digest 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z Merriam-Webster also has an entry for “complexify,” a transitive verb meaning “to make complex.” After Jeff Bezos used the word 'complexifier,' everyone wants to know what it means 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Bowl season is all about conference bragging rights and the transitive properties of previous results. Bowl Season! Reasons to watch all 39 games and who will win 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z I would have guessed that transitive dice were more common than intransitive ones. How Warren Buffett Rigged a Dice Game with Bill Gates 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z So therefore, by some transitive property of racial math, this Kirkland incident was Ragland’s fault and didn’t involve bias of any kind. I just got treated to a whole chapter in the book on ‘white fragility’ 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Swinton points to a transitive quality of identity in Guadagnino’s work, as the physical world acquires human affects and as characters swap roles, literally or figuratively assuming each other’s names. Luca Guadagnino’s Cinema of Desire 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z He was using his work to get closer, by some emotional transitive property, to their trauma. ‘True Detective’ Director Cary Fukunaga Is Bringing His Obsessions to Netflix 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z And by the transitive property, to demote immigrants from the empathy and consideration that decent people extend to other human beings. Opinion | Trump’s words carry loathsome baggage 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z I could imagine some suspicious readers, tired of having their expectations subverted, predicting that intransitive dice are more common than transitive ones. How Warren Buffett Rigged a Dice Game with Bill Gates 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z There’s one problem: Most football fans in the state of Texas root for the Dallas Cowboys, and, by the transitive property, against the very Philadelphia Eagles that Foles plays for. Nick Foles congratulated by full-page newspaper ad from Redskins fan Matthew McConaughey 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Hence the transitive verb, meaning, to "direct or organise something". Are these the worst examples of business jargon? 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z The transitive properties of mathematics, he said, do not apply to college football. ‘We are on the map.’ Unbeaten UCF stakes claim to football national championship 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z The transitive property is fool’s gold in sports. Florida editorial roundup 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z For three dice, transitive and intransitive dice are equally common. How Warren Buffett Rigged a Dice Game with Bill Gates 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The dominance and popularity of Google means people use the company’s name as a transitive verb to define information searches. Google’s top search results promote offensive content, again 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z And if industry dynamics are not transitive across the board, expertise isn’t, either. Perspective | I worked for Jared Kushner. He’s the wrong businessman to reinvent government. 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z “I was unaware,” Dr. Harden replied coolly, “that college proms were held in the Bowery and I know no precedent for using an abbreviation of the noun ‘crockery’ as a transitive verb. “I.O.U.” 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z If calculated only by the laws of transitive property, the Washington Huskies wouldn’t stand much of a chance against Alabama. Do the Huskies have any shot at upsetting No. 1 Alabama? 'Definitely,' says USC coach Clay Helton 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z The transitive property always involves three elements, for example: if x=y and y=z, then x=z. Trump’s intersection with guns, math and right-leaning pundits 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Remember the transitive property of Trump: Whenever Donald Trump loves something, it loves him back. How to Cover Donald Trump Fairly: A Style Guide 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z And Humphrys confides that he is unmoved by the “sweet smile” of a waitress who says “Enjoy!” to him, wanting to ask her, “Don’t you know that ‘enjoy’ is a transitive not an intransitive verb?” From alright to zap: an A-Z of horrible words 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z “Many a tame sentence of description or exposition can be made lively and emphatic by substituting a transitive in the active voice for some such perfunctory expression as there is, or could be heard.” Dog Is Bitten by Man 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z “Crossing” ambitiously explores the encounter between music and poetry as it traces what Aucoin describes as the difficult passage from intransitive to transitive love. Matthew Aucoin, Opera’s Great 25-Year-Old Hope 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z “Clad” is a past participle form and is not used as a transitive verb in this sense. Tricky Little Things 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z “Amass” is a transitive verb meaning accumulate: “She amassed great wealth.” Words We Love Too Much 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Humans learn by doing, and by the transitive property, companies do, too. Dear Startups, Don't Skip Design Thinking 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Legal minds will note the parsing of phrases and dearth of transitive verbs. Luis Suarez Approximates an Apology for Biting Giorgio Chiellini Scholarship athletes "are, at best, temporary employees, based on their transitive nature … they cannot in any sense form the nucleus of a collective bargaining agreement." College quarterback testifies before labor board 2014-02-19T04:54:00Z "Must the strong, simple transitive verb, which is one of the main glories of our tongue, become as obsolete in England as it appears to be in America?" Whatever happened to the term New Man? 2014-01-30T10:24:28Z And when you use the Internet without any crypto, without anonymity, without privacy, what you do is you present a transitive risk to your community and probably even your country. Top 5 investigative videos of the week: Nailing a dictator 2013-05-19T13:00:00Z A transitive verb, for example is thought of as a process with three wires, one requiring an object, one a subject, and one producing the sentence. Quantum Mechanical Words and Mathematical Organisms 2013-05-16T14:15:31.027Z And applying the transitive property to the two phrases, one gets at an important formulation for our “Big Data” times: “Data is evidence.” Moving from Big Data to Big Wisdom 2013-03-28T16:47:37Z I mentioned it to one of the researchers, he quipped that via the transitive property, Goldberg was arguing for more deaths. The answer is not more guns 2012-12-18T00:30:00Z But as for transitive property concept... you lost me. One Word That Defines a Great Personal Brand 2012-08-06T13:30:00Z The principal intransitive uses were probably derived from the transitive verb used reflexively. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z These should be followed by the copulative verb; after which should come the intransitive verb and its nominative in the different tenses, and the transitive with its object in the same way. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z O′n respectively, the latter being also arbitrarily chosen, the group is said to be n-ply transitive. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z But the serial relations are transitive relations which are not symmetrical. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z That is a moral far more easily worked in cases of outward, transitive sin than in those which disturb only the direct relations of man with God. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z Object, of a preposition, 55, 66; of a transitive verb, 66; indirect, 66; second, 66. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z On the other hand, the proposed use of καθίζειν as a transitive verb would make the fourth Gospel, xix. The Gospel According To Peter 2011-09-22T02:00:26.513Z The group is therefore doubly transitive in respect of the set of rational numbers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z The "between" relations of geometry can of course be defined, if you choose, in terms of transitive relations that are not symmetrical. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z A relation is said to be “transitive” when, if one term has this relation to another, and the other to a third, then the one has it to the third. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Rise, Raise Rise is intransitive; raise is transitive. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z Betsy Sparrow and her team found that people are using their transitive memory less, because they think the machine will remember for them. Tech Weekly: Patents, a stealth internet, Bigpoint on social gaming 2011-07-20T07:04:57Z In respect of each of these sets the group is simply transitive. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z This relation is transitive, but may be either symmetrical or not symmetrical; so that, according as it is symmetrical or not, it may be used either to establish levels or to generate series. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z But many relations are transitive without being symmetrical—for instance, such relations as “greater,” “earlier,” “to the right of,” “ancestor of,” in fact all such relations as give rise to series. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Exercise 112—Troublesome Verbs Lie, Lay Lie is intransitive; lay is transitive. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z The Indians, observing this peculiarity, called it Unica, which is the transitive form of white. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z Every group of finite order N can therefore be represented in concrete form as a transitive group of permutations on N symbols. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Besides this, the suffix cah accompanies all verbs in the present and imperfect; and the suffix ah accompanies all transitive verbs through the remaining tenses, except the future. The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb 2011-07-08T02:00:18.037Z Owing to the fact that possession of a common property gives rise to a transitive symmetrical relation, we come to imagine that wherever such a relation occurs it must be due to a common property. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Only transitive verbs, therefore, may be changed to the passive voice. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z After transitive verbs the accusative is used to show the direct object. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z In accordance with the general definitions already given, a permutation-group is called transitive or intransitive according as it does or does not contain permutations changing any one of the symbols into any other. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z The idea of transitive verbs is here taken somewhat narrower than usual. The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb 2011-07-08T02:00:18.037Z “Being equally numerous” is a transitive symmetrical relation of two collections; hence we imagine that both have a common property, called their number. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Direct object of a transitive verb; as, I have a good position. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z There are two classes of verbs—transitive and intransitive. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z Thus, for an equation of the fifth degree the various transitive subgroups of the symmetric group of degree five have to be considered. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z The future of transitive verbs not only does not take any of these syllables, but even rejects ah when it is the terminal syllable of the stem. The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb 2011-07-08T02:00:18.037Z “Being states of a given thing” is a transitive symmetrical relation; hence we come to imagine that there really is a thing, other than the series of states, which accounts for the transitive symmetrical relation. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z The creative act is not formally transitive; it is virtually so: and in the creature it grounds the latter's relation of real dependence on the Creator.415.Cf. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z In English the following and many other verbs are used in both a transitive and intransitive sense:—to stop, to continue, to pass, to finish, to commence. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z For its operation is admittedly not transitive or physical. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z The verb has two sets of terminations, according as it is transitive or intransitive, and the pronominal object is sometimes incorporated. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z All transitive verbs involve the notion of cause as activity, and would have to be replaced by some cumbrous periphrasis before this notion could be eliminated. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Where we use transitive cut they put intransitive cut eye. wheeling, turning them in the dance. run come, came running up. bear an' bear, was patient for a while. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z Esperanto follows international usage in giving such verbs one meaning only, either transitive or intransitive. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z Moreover, from the totality of these auxiliaries two parallel series have been formed, which, joined alternatively to nouns of action, produce the active and middle voices, or rather the transitive and intransitive. Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z This synthetic and transitive function of consciousness is a positive fact about it, to be discovered by study, like any other somewhat recondite fact. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z The second is into transitive, intransitive, and merely non-transitive relations, which are defined as follows. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Irregular verbs, the formation of transitive and causal verbs, and the treatment of compound verbs, are on the same lines as in Mth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z In English these verbs are used both transitively and intransitively, but if we wish to give them a transitive signification in Esperanto we must add the suffix -IGI. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z The transitive part of that philosophy is being risk averse in the early rounds. Avoiding Undue Risks in Your Fantasy Draft 2010-08-09T12:01:00Z Conscious life, we find, is a continuous adjustment; each of its moments is a "transitive state." Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude A relation is said to be transitive, if, whenever it holds between A and B and also between B and C, it holds between A and C. Thus before, after, greater, above are transitive. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z The first of each pair is transitive, and always requires an object; the second is intransitive and never takes an object. The Style Book of The Detroit News Transitive verbs.—On the contrary, fini = to finish, and komenci = to commence, are transitive, and therefore do not require the addition of -IG to make them transitive. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z Thus the word "gardein," for guardian, is the old law term: and the verb "learn," still often used actively, was, according to Trench, originally employed indifferently in a transitive sense as well as intransitive. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia To avoid further repetition in the method I have adopted to impress upon the mind the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs by contrasted sentences, I would refer the reader to the remarks under Lay. Every-Day Errors of Speech All relations giving rise to series are transitive, but so are many others. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z To lay and to lie.—To lay is an active or transitive verb, and must always have an object, expressed or understood. Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected From the above words we see that the roots pes- and pez- both signify "weight," and care must be taken to use the words in their transitive or intransitive sense. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z Dr. Murray gives other instances of blow as a transitive verb. Minor Poems by Milton Raise is a transitive verb, or one in which the action passes over to an object. Every-Day Errors of Speech A relation is said to be non-transitive whenever it is not transitive. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Those in in, ün, ùn, and ân are transitive, in unnua are passive and neuter, the others are transitive, intransitive, or neuter. The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations Roots: definition of, 28; idea conveyed by, 50; modification of English spelling, 52; transitive, intransitive, 237i. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z This verb intransitive has never been used in New England in a transitive sense, until recently some persons have adopted it from the English books. Noah Webster American Men of Letters Awaken is another verb, both transitive and intransitive. Every-Day Errors of Speech Other relations are symmetrical without being transitive—for example, difference in any respect. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z God, therefore, is the immanent, but not the transitive cause of all things. The Philosophy of Spinoza How are compound nouns written when one of the components is derived from a transitive verb? Compound Words Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #36 Here we must needs wonder at the use of work as a transitive verb when the intransitive sense is so clearly demanded, and at the evident accentuation of cabaret. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Wake is both a transitive and an intransitive verb. Every-Day Errors of Speech "He handed the commissions to Gray and Hodgins respectively."Rise and raise.Rise is an intransitive verb; raise is a transitive verb. The Century Handbook of Writing That's called "transitive trust" -- trust that moves across the web of our relationships. Little Brother Lay, which is a transitive verb, should not be confused with lie. Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses A rather more obvious error is the evidently transitive use of the verb abound in the last line of this stanza. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 "Who do you know?" and "Who did you hear?" are wrong: whom should be used, for it is the object of the transitive verbs, see, know and hear. Every-Day Errors of Speech "I raise the stone from the ground."Sit and set.Set, a transitive verb, means to cause to sit. The Century Handbook of Writing In the received translation we have a transitive verb, and a noun, obviously its accusative, according to the natural sequence and simple construction of the Hebrew language. Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Of verbs ending in o some are actives transitive. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue Even an abstract state can be represented in a picture, but a transitive state never. The Book of Khalid Set, as we shall first consider it, is a transitive verb, or one in which the action passes over to an object. Every-Day Errors of Speech "That is an apt phrase."Lie and lay.Lay, a transitive verb, means to cause to lie. The Century Handbook of Writing The transitive verb has no subject; the noun nothing to govern it. Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Verbs transitive ending in o become passive by changing o into or, as Secor, I am cut. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue He was the first who established the number of four elements, which had been previously pointed out one by one, partly as fundamental substances, and partly as transitive changes of things coming into existence. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero Sit may also be used in two senses as a transitive verb, as: "The general sits his horse well," and "The woman sat herself down." Every-Day Errors of Speech Befall and betide are transitive; happen is intransitive; something befalls or betides a person or happens to him. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions The infinitive of a transitive verb, preceded by any preposition, always governs the noun, which is the object of the verbal action, in the genitive. Elements of Gaelic Grammar The intransitive forms drink and lie, are strong; the transitive forms drench and lay, are weak. A Handbook of the English Language The transitive use is older than the intransitive. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar This word in the sense here considered is a transitive verb, or one in which the action or state implied by the verb, passes over to an object. Every-Day Errors of Speech What is the significance of dispense in the transitive use? English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Any transitive Verb may be so combined with a Pronoun, either Personal or Possessive, that it shall denote the agent to be also the object of the action. Elements of Gaelic Grammar Of the divisions of verbs into active and passive, transitive and intransitive, unless there be an accompanying change of form, etymology takes no cognisance. A Handbook of the English Language Each transitive form may thus offer twenty-four variations—"he gives it," "he gives it to you," "he gives them to us," &c., &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" The great mechanical distinction between transitive forces and discharging forces is nowhere illustrated on such a scale as in physiology. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy The transitive use of recover in the sense of cure, heal, etc., as in 2 Kings v, 6, "That thou mayest recover him of his leprosy," is now practically obsolete. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Wa, meaning some or something, prefixed to transitive verbs makes them intransitive or general in their application. The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages All these intransitives form their pr�terite by a change of vowel; as sink, sank; all the transitives by the addition of d or t, as sell, sell'd. A Handbook of the English Language No voices appear to have been used in the same radical, so that there are separate transitive and intransitive verbs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" According as the primitive verb has a transitive or intransitive sense, the derivative verbs formed from it will take ber- or me- as the case may be. A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay The chief transitive use of recover is in the sense to obtain again after losing, regain, repossess, etc.; as, to recover stolen goods; to recover health. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Schleicher gives two methods of forming secondary verb stems: by suffix sa forming frequentatives; by suffix ya cause to be, forming transitive verbs from verbs, adjectives and nouns. The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages For the purposes of syntax it is necessary to divide verbs into the five following divisions: transitive, intransitive, auxiliary, substantive, and impersonal. A Handbook of the English Language Touch, in short, is an ambiguous term and includes both passive sensations and those forms of Activity which we describe when we use the term "feel" as a transitive verb. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Often both particles may be used, and both transitive and intransitive derivative verbs may be formed from the same primitive. A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay Since only transitive verbs can have a receiver of the action, only transitive verbs can have both active and passive voice. Practical Grammar and Composition The redundant of, often used, in this country, in connection with the transitive verbs to taste and to smell, is a Yankeeism. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Transitive verbs.—In transitive verbs the action is never a simple action. A Handbook of the English Language They are not, in consequence, transitive vehicles of thought. Human Traits and their Social Significance No general rule applicable to all transitive verbs can be laid down for the use of this form with mem-per-; practice and experience must form the only guide. A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay There are a few special verbs in which the failure to distinguish between the transitive and the intransitive verbs leads to frequent error. Practical Grammar and Composition Good and bad, high and low, black and white, are in all cases employed in a transitive sense, and with strict relation to the objects characterized. The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians The presence of a transitive verb implies also the presence of a noun; which noun is the name of the object affected. A Handbook of the English Language He would persist in an obstinate refusal to use the word "think" at all in a transitive sense. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature It is also used in sentences that have a relative construction which does not indicate a transitive action. Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language The verbs in these sentences, and all similar verbs, are transitive verbs. Practical Grammar and Composition Comp. the transitive use of the verb in l. Milton's Comus A transitive verb, unaccompanied by a noun, either expressed or understood, is a contradiction in terms. A Handbook of the English Language Be—gives a transitive signification, as in bespeak. New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words But in general it is inferred by a process of measurement depending on our direct sense-awareness of selected cases and a logical inference from the transitive character of congruence. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Does a transitive or does an intransitive verb have both voices? Practical Grammar and Composition Active verbs, we are told, are divided into transitive and intransitive. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Verbs like move and strike are naturally transitive. A Handbook of the English Language Denominatives of the First Conjugation are mostly transitive; those of the Second exclusively intransitive. New Latin Grammar Finally the sixth axiom of congruence is that the relation of congruence is transitive. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Verbs transitive require an oblique case; as, He loves me; You fear him. A Grammar of the English Tongue The expression is a correct one, but the action expressed by the verb "conquered," is not transitive, as that term is understood. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. The government of all transitive verbs is necessarily objective. A Handbook of the English Language Those of the Third and Fourth Conjugations are partly transitive, partly intransitive. New Latin Grammar Moreover, truth may very well be identified with an impassible intellect, which should do nothing but possess all truth, with no point of view, no animal warmth, and no transitive process. The Life of Reason But the feelings and the sense were transitive to an abstract object, intransitive to that terrible reality, the American slave. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Who can discover any thing like transitive action—a passing from the agent to the object—in these cases? Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. It generally follows a transitive verb, a participle, or a preposition. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Also verbs are sometimes made transitive by prepositions. An English Grammar Antonyms: inaction, stagnation, inactivity, inertia. active, a. brisk, nimble, agile, sprightly, spirited; strenuous, diligent, enterprising; operative, efficacious, drastic; effective; transitive. Putnam's Word Book It is properly used as a transitive verb, but in conversation is very often used intransitively. A Collection of College Words and Customs What transitive action do the windows perform to admit the light; or the christians, to suffer insults; or the miser, to leave his money? Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. An active verb is transitive when the action passes over from the subject or nominative to an object; as, Richard strikes John. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures This use of a transitive verb is called the active voice. An English Grammar "Jacobinism and iniquity," he wrote in his twentieth year, "are so allied in signification, that the latter always follows the former, just as in grammar 'the accusative case follows the transitive verb.'" Famous Americans of Recent Times The intransitive or static subjects may or may not be identical with the object of the transitive verb. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech A class of words which can not act, which apply to things in a quiescent state, perform the transitive action of "expressing a state of being!" Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. The noun vessel is in the objective case, and governed by the transitive verb see. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures The transitive verb often requires, in addition to the object, a word to define fully the action that is exerted upon the object; for example, "Ye call me chief." An English Grammar The intention is probably an independent use of the p.p. of the transitive verb 'to hag'; defined as 'to torment or terrify as a hag, to trouble as the nightmare'. Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems The confusion comes of the identity of a present tense of the transitive verb to lay and the past tense of the intransitive verb to lie. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults A transitive verb "expresses an action which passes from the agent to the object; as, Cæsar conquered Pompey." Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. An active verb is transitive, when the action terminates on an object: but An active verb is intransitive, when the action does not terminate on an object; as, John walks. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures All these are called transitive verbs, from the Latin transire, which means to go over. An English Grammar The transitive verb which is perhaps in danger of neglect is very valuable, and it is well employed. Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems Leave is a transitive verb; name the place of departure. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults When the object is expressed the verb is transitive, when it is not it is intransitive. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. The following sign will generally enable you to distinguish a transitive verb from an intransitive. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures A transitive verb is one which must have an object to complete its meaning, and to receive the action expressed. An English Grammar In the Century Dictionary, with its pronunciation hw�r'i, it is described as dialectal form of whirr or of hurry, to fly rapidly with noise, also transitive to hurry. Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems Frighten.—Frighten is a transitive verb, and is used correctly in "The locomotive frightened the horse;" "The horse was frightened by the locomotive;" "The horse became frightened." Practical Exercises in English It is, according to every system, an active transitive verb. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Any verb that will make sense with the words a thing or a person, after it, is transitive. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures The important thing to observe is, many words must be distinguished as transitive or intransitive by use, not by form. An English Grammar It is passing or transitive, and ends all the angles formed by walking. Delsarte System of Oratory The majority of verbs in our language are either transitive or intransitive, according to the sense in which they are used. Composition-Rhetoric "No, no; there is an object on which the action terminates, in that case, and so we must call it a transitive verb." Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Hence you know that these verbs are transitive. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures As has been seen, transitive verbs are the only kind that can express action so as to go over to an object. An English Grammar The fifth attitude serves as a preparation for oblique steps; it is also colorless, transitive, suspensive. Delsarte System of Oratory All transitive verbs and some intransitive verbs require one or more words to complete the meaning of the predicate. Composition-Rhetoric How then can the mere addition of this mood make any verb transitive? or where, on such a principle, can the line of distinction for transitive verbs be drawn? The Grammar of English Grammars We cannot say, if we mean to speak English, I smile a person or thing—I go a person or thing:—hence you perceive that these verbs are not transitive, but intransitive. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Notice that a verb of incomplete predication may be of two kinds,—transitive and intransitive. An English Grammar In walking, stop midway between two steps and you have the 5th attitude or transitive position. Delsarte System of Oratory Classes of Verbs.+—According to their uses in a sentence verbs are divided into two classes: transitive and intransitive. Composition-Rhetoric In others, the transitive character of the word is partial; as, "He paid my board; I told you so." The Grammar of English Grammars If you reflect upon these examples for a few moments, you will have a clear conception of the nature of transitive and intransitive verbs. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures This word completing a transitive verb is sometimes called a factitive object, or second object, but it is a true complement. An English Grammar The transitive character of verbs requiring objective inflections, for the nominative, &c. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers A few verbs in our language are always transitive, and a few others are always intransitive. Composition-Rhetoric If that is a conjunction, it connects what precedes and what follows; but a transitive verb should exercise a direct government, without the intervention of a conjunction. The Grammar of English Grammars Before I close this subject, however, it is necessary farther to remark, that some transitive and intransitive verbs express what is called a mental or moral action; and others, a corporeal or physical action. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures The "transitions," or the pronominal forms which indicate the passage of the action of a transitive verb from the agent to the object, play an important part in the Iroquois language. The Iroquois Book of Rites The word is derived from eu, "within"; and bruo, "I am full of anything, I swell or teem with"; in a transitive sense, "I break forth." The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day If we say Cornwallis was captured by Washington, the verb is still transitive; but the object, Cornwallis, which names the receiver, is here the subject of the sentence, and not, as before, the object complement. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition "It is as necessary to make a distinction between the active transitive and the active intransitive forms of the verb, as between the active and passive forms." The Grammar of English Grammars When I say, The birds fly, the verb fly is intransitive; but when I say, The boy flies the kite, the verb fly is transitive, and governs the noun kite in the objective case. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Encouraged thus, I plunged into my subject whole-heartedly and was discussing the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs when she checked me in full career by asking: "Have you a father and mother?" Peregrine's Progress Let the teacher write transitive and intransitive verbs on the board, and require the pupils to distinguish them. Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room A verb is transitive only when an object is expressed or obviously understood. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition Sanders's Grammar has three; "Transitive, Intransitive, and Neuter;" and two voices, both transitive! The Grammar of English Grammars Almost any active intransitive verb, and sometimes even neuter verbs, are used as transitive. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures It is here a transitive, not an impersonal verb. The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 Place the following verbs in two columns, one headed transitive and the other, intransitive. Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room An intransitive verb is sometimes made transitive by the aid of a preposition. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition The words written separately will always have the same meaning, unless we omit the preposition of, and suppose the compound to be a transitive verb. The Grammar of English Grammars A verb is transitive when the action affects an object; as, "Earthquakes rock kingdoms; thrones and palaces are shaken down; and potentates, princes, and subjects, are buried in one common grave." English Grammar in Familiar Lectures It should never be transitive when predicated of parents or any other third party. Miss Lulu Bett Build these verbs into sentences by supplying a subject to each intransitive verb, and a subject and an object to each transitive verb. Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room How may an intransitive verb sometimes be made transitive? Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition "Some intransitive verbs may be rendered transitive by means of a preposition prefixt to them." The Grammar of English Grammars Telescope, then, is the real object of the action, denoted by the transitive verb invented; and, therefore, telescope is in the objective case. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures This verb should be transitive only when lovers are speaking of each other, or the minister or magistrate is speaking of lovers. Miss Lulu Bett Arrange the following verbs as before, and then build them into sentences by supplying a subject and a noun attribute to each intransitive verb, and a subject and an object to each transitive verb. Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room The past participle of a transitive verb is always passive except in such forms as have chosen, had chosen. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition When, therefore, we speak of verbs without reference to their regimen, we may, if we please, apply the simple term active to all those which express action, whether transitive or intransitive. The Grammar of English Grammars Verbs are of two kinds, transitive and intransitive. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures The transitive verb stow means to put in a place: here it is used intransitively. England's Antiphon A verb may be transitive in one sentence and intransitive in another. Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room How is a transitive verb conjugated in the passive voice? Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition It is possible that some teachers may look upon the nice distinction here made, between the active transitive and the active intransitive verbs, as totally unnecessary. The Grammar of English Grammars Not proper, because who, which is the object of the action expressed by the transitive verb "esteem," is in the nominative case. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures The distinctions for animate and inanimate objects, and for transitive and intransitive, are illustrated by the following: Singular—I kill, Thou killest, etc. History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author The passive form may be made by filling all the blanks with the past participle of a transitive verb. Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room But in parsing these words as separate verbs the student is left in doubt as to whether they are transitive or intransitive, and as to the office of the infinitives that follow. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition Again, he says, 'Active verbs govern the objective case;' although it is clear it is not the active meaning of the verb which requires the objective case, but the transitive, and that only. The Grammar of English Grammars The verbs, cost, weighs, and measures, in the 6th, 7th, and 8th examples, may be considered as transitive. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Verbs are regular or irregular, transitive or intransitive. How to Speak and Write Correctly Name all the transitive verbs in Lessons 20 and 22, and give, their voice. Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Sentences containing a transitive verb and a preposition before a noun are very common—"Powerless to affect, or to be affected by, the times." Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition Some grammarians, choosing to parse the passive participle separately, reject this class of verbs altogether; and, forming their division of the rest with reference to the construction alone, make but two classes, transitive and intransitive. The Grammar of English Grammars It is the object of the action of the transitive verb "love," and put by apposition with "God;" therefore it should be the objective case, him, according to Rule 7. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Many intransitive verbs, however, can be used transitively; thus, "I walk the horse;" walk is here transitive. How to Speak and Write Correctly Set is generally transitive, and sit is intransitive. Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room In its several forms it stands for the finite forms and for the infinitive and the participle of verbs, transitive and intransitive, regular and irregular. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition But subsequently, in his Philosophical, Abridged, and Improved Grammars, he recognized "a more natural and comprehensive division" of verbs, "transitive, intransitive, and passive." The Grammar of English Grammars Ye, in the nominative case, is erroneous, because it is the object of the action expressed by the transitive verb "hath quickened;" and therefore it should be you, in the objective case. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Remember that the objective case follows transitive verbs and prepositions. How to Speak and Write Correctly Suffixes to verbs: There are certain terminations which, when added to neuter verbs or to verbs active only in a general way, make them definitely transitive or determine their action upon some object. Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language, Solomon Islands A verb transitive in one sentence; as, He writes good English, may be intransitive in another; as, He writes well—meaning simply He is a good writer. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition But if Dr. Webster ever taught the absurd doctrine that passive verbs are transitive, he has contradicted it far too much to have any weight in its favour. The Grammar of English Grammars Active-intransitive verbs sometimes assume a transitive form, and govern the objective case; as, "To dream a dream; To run a race; To walk the horse; To dance the child; To fly the kite." English Grammar in Familiar Lectures A transitive verb is one the action of which passes over to or affects some object; as "I struck the table." How to Speak and Write Correctly The causative is fa: it may be prefixed to almost any word, and it may be used with words which have a transitive suffix. Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language, Solomon Islands A transitive verb is conjugated in the +passive voice+ by joining its past participle to the different forms of the verb be. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition Cutler avers, "All verbs are active;" yet he divides them "into active transitive, active intransitive, and participial verbs."—Grammar and Parser, p. The Grammar of English Grammars The most frequent errors result from using laid, the past tense form of the transitive verb, when the word lay, the past tense form of the intransitive verb, should be used. Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking Here the action of striking affected the object table, hence struck is a transitive verb. How to Speak and Write Correctly The use of fa frequently obviates the use of a transitive suffix and of itself makes verbs transitive. Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language, Solomon Islands The intransitive verb and preposition are together equivalent to a transitive verb in the passive voice. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition The notion of calling passive verbs transitive, when used in their ordinary and proper construction, as some now do, is, I think, a modern one, and no small error. The Grammar of English Grammars As both pronouns are objects of the transitive verb appointed, both should be in the objective case. Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking The passive voice is formed by putting the perfect participle of any transitive verb with any of the eleven parts of the verb To Be. How to Speak and Write Correctly New York is not even a noun—it's a verb transitive; but its voice is a female voice, just as Paris' voice is. Europe Revised This prophecy has not only a personal and specific fulfilment, as pointing to the speaker herself, but a transitive and general application, as referring to her sex at large. Such Is Life Perfect participle of transitive verbs, being used in the formation of passive verbs, is sometimes called the Passive participle. The Grammar of English Grammars When a transitive participle is converted into a noun, of must be inserted to govern the object following. Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking The verb let is transitive and therefore takes the objective case. How to Speak and Write Correctly For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. Essays — Second Series He held good and evil to be merely geographical and chronological expressions, and he opined that what is called Evil is mostly an active and transitive form of Good. Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance Thirdly, it may be put after a verb or a participle not transitive, according to Rule 6th. The Grammar of English Grammars But though at the moment of anger, the expression is identical with that of hatred, it is also transitive. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students When the verb is transitive, that is, when the action cannot happen without affecting something, the thing affected is called the object. How to Speak and Write Correctly Ail, irk, and behoove, are regular verbs and transitive; but they are used only in the third person singular: as, "What ails you?"—"It irks me."—"It behooves you." The Grammar of English Grammars A Noun or a Pronoun put after a verb or participle not transitive, agrees in case with a preceding noun or pronoun referring to the same thing. The Grammar of English Grammars Besides, composing, as a participle, is commonly transitive; nor is it very fit for a noun, without some adjunct. The Grammar of English Grammars After transitive verbs always use the objective cases of the pronouns. How to Speak and Write Correctly Whom is here the object of the transitive verb sent. How to Speak and Write Correctly Lay is a transitive verb, therefore it takes a direct object after it; as "I lay a wager," "I laid the carpet," etc. How to Speak and Write Correctly The transitive verb lay, and lay, the past tense of the neuter verb lie, are often confounded, though quite different in meaning. How to Speak and Write Correctly |
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