| 单词 | intransitive |
| 例句 | In its intransitive form, to hump meant to walk, or to march, but it implied burdens far beyond the intransitive. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In the last stanza, though, Housman rhymes three intransitive verbs – "nighs", "sighs", "replies". Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z As movement ceases, the perfectly-judged intransitive use of "insists" somehow knits every earlier experience and future possibility together. Poem of the week: Autobiography Without Pronouns by Tiffany Atkinson 2013-04-08T10:09:25Z “To bald” may not be a common intransitive verb, but that has not prevented “balding” from entering the language as a participle. Dropped Hyphens, Split Infinitives, and Other Thrilling Developments from the 2019 American Copy Editors Society Conference 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z With any set of intransitive dice, whoever chooses first in Buffett’s game bears a disadvantage, because the second player can always pick the die that’s likely to defeat their opponent’s choice. 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 It says so in the Oxford English Dictionary, the authority on our language, and Merriam-Webster agrees—it’s an intransitive verb, just as it’s used in the examples above. Fighting words: Breaking down the 7 most disputed terms in golf - Golf Digest 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z So what the critics really meant is that the Times erred in using an intransitive verb. The weasel voice in journalism 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Many people first encounter intransitive games through rock paper scissors. How Warren Buffett Rigged a Dice Game with Bill Gates 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The waitress herself, compelled to serve Humphrys, might like to reply that the OED cites intransitive uses of enjoy from 1380 on. From alright to zap: an A-Z of horrible words 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z “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 The principal intransitive uses were probably derived from the transitive verb used reflexively. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z It is also used with the past participle of many intransitive verbs to express a state of the subject. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Stanford statistician Bradley Efron invented intransitive dice over 50 years ago. How Warren Buffett Rigged a Dice Game with Bill Gates 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z 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 “Do you know what ergativity is?” he asked her, referring to a property of some languages, including Hindi, by which a verb’s subject changes case when the verb is intransitive. A Teenage Master of Languages Finds Online Fellowship 2012-03-09T18:53:15Z Dryden. µ The intransitive uses come from the dropping out of the reflexive pronoun. 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 Just when you think you’ve wrapped your head around the peculiar behavior of intransitive dice, the brilliant construction below will roll you right back to dumbstruck awe. How Warren Buffett Rigged a Dice Game with Bill Gates 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The intransitive use seems unusual, unless it means as above = the Anglican Church performs the evening service at the close of its day, or before it ceased to exist as the Church of the land. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z When this is not possible the group is called intransitive in respect of the set. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Rise, Raise Rise is intransitive; raise is transitive. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z 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 These don’t beat each other with identical probabilities, but they’re still intransitive. How Warren Buffett Rigged a Dice Game with Bill Gates 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z His style is forcibly intransitive: verbs are deprived of their objects, prepositions are suppressed, conjunctions vanish, full-stops proliferate. Iain Sinclair's struggles with the city of London 2011-07-15T09:05:01Z By including a sufficient number of these variables the group must be intransitive in them, and must therefore have one or more invariants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Some intransitive verbs require a predicate noun or pronoun in the nominative case, or an adjective, to complete their meaning. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z A relation is said to be intransitive when, if A has the relation to B, and B to C, A never has it to C. Thus “father” is intransitive. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Clever people have carefully constructed by hand all of the dice discussed above, but could they have just chosen dice numberings at random and had a decent shot at finding an intransitive set? How Warren Buffett Rigged a Dice Game with Bill Gates 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The tenses of the intransitive verbs, except the present and imperfect, while they drop ah and the possessive pronoun, are formed with that pronoun which forms sentences with a predicate. 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 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 Exercise 112—Troublesome Verbs Lie, Lay Lie is intransitive; lay is transitive. 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 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 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 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 Exercise 113—Troublesome Verbs Sit, Set Sit is intransitive and signifies to rest. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z 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 Polymath Project participants proved that three random n-sided dice will be intransitive about half of the time. How Warren Buffett Rigged a Dice Game with Bill Gates 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z 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 In the case of intransitive verbs, the suffixes may represent the nominative and not the instrumental case of the pronoun, and hence the conjugation is somewhat different. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z A verb is intransitive when it needs no object to complete its meaning; as, The crowd cheered. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z 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 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 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 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 But if we wish to give an intransitive sense to these verbs we may use the suffix -IĜI. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z 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 This is conclusively proved by the use of habban with intransitive verbs. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary 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 The verb lie is an intransitive verb and can have no object after it. Every-Day Errors of Speech 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 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 With intransitive verbs denoting change of condition, the Old English auxiliary is usually some form of to be rather than to have. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary 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 Rise is an intransitive verb, the action not passing over to an object. Every-Day Errors of Speech 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 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 For Segolate-forms in o are only used to express passive and intransitive notions, and the verb גמר is found in the signification "to be completed," in Ps. vii. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 "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 Sit is an intransitive verb, or one which has no object after it. Every-Day Errors of Speech Cahoon, I am told, only sweats in the old-fashioned intransitive sense of the word. The Red Hand of Ulster Be it known, that abound is strictly an intransitive verb! Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 It is, then, an adjective of intransitive signification. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 Verbs neuter and intransitive are never made passive. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue Awaken is another verb, both transitive and intransitive. Every-Day Errors of Speech To color is to impart a color desired or undesired, temporary or permanent, or, in the intransitive use, to assume a color in any way; as, he colored with shame and vexation. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Transitive verbs derived from intransitives by a change of the vowel of the root. A Handbook of the English Language The transitive use is older than the intransitive. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar Other verbs ending in o are named neuters and intransitives. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue Wake is both a transitive and an intransitive verb. 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 intransitive forms drink and lie, are strong; the transitive forms drench and lay, are weak. 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" A verb is called intransitive, or neuter, when the action does not pass on, or require a following noun, as curro, I run. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue 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 The intransitive sense, be cured, be restored, etc., is very common; as, to recover from sickness, terror, or misfortune. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions 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 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 Let me add, what I had forgotten at the time, that another instance of budde intransitive, to bend, occurs at p. Notes and Queries, Number 197, August 6, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 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 As Milton frequently omits the nominative, we may supply she: otherwise leans would be intransitive and its nominative ‘head’: see note, l. Milton's Comus 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 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 A predicative adjective becomes an intransitive verb, and is conjugated accordingly. The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales Does a transitive or does an intransitive verb have both voices? Practical Grammar and Composition Again, adjectives are used as intransitive verbs, as in most Indian languages there is no verb to be used as a predicant or copula. On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16 Here the reflective pronoun appears out of place, i.e., after a neuter or intransitive verb. A Handbook of the English Language When the former is employed, the verb describes a state or condition, and is intransitive. A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay The believer in intransitive verbs set out to run his opponent into an evident absurdity, and, contrary to his expectation, he ran himself into one. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Transitive and intransitive verbs, confusion of, 56; explanation of, 4, 55-56. Practical Grammar and Composition Where in English we would say the man is good, the Indian would say that man good, using the adjective as an intransitive verb, i.e., as a predicant. On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16 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 The verb "to scout" is intransitive in this case. Love Conquers All I should think teachers in our northern countries would find it exceeding difficult to convince their readers that snow is an intransitive verb—that it snows nothing. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Denominatives of the First Conjugation are mostly transitive; those of the Second exclusively intransitive. New Latin Grammar The adverb there would, therefore, be used as a predicant or intransitive verb, and might be conjugated to denote different modes, tenses, numbers, persons, etc. On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16 The absence of the nouns, in and of itself, makes it intransitive. A Handbook of the English Language 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 With the solitary exception I have mentioned—the burning bush—this verb can not be intransitive. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Those of the Third and Fourth Conjugations are partly transitive, partly intransitive. New Latin Grammar Nouns may be used as intransitive verbs under the circumstances when in English we would use a noun as the complement of a sentence after the verb to be. On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16 Verbs like hunger and sleep are naturally intransitive. A Handbook of the English Language 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 This is an intransitive verb if there ever was one, because the object is not often expressed after it. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. NOTE.—It is to be borne in mind that these verbs do not take the Dative by virtue of their apparent English equivalence, but simply because they are intransitive, and adapted to an indirect object. New Latin Grammar Thus adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and nouns are used as intransitive verbs; and, to such extent, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, nouns and verbs are undifferentiated. On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16 Nevertheless, intransitive verbs may be followed by nouns denoting the manner, degree, or instrumentality of their action,—I walk with my feet = incedo pedibus. A Handbook of the English Language The following sign will generally enable you to distinguish a transitive verb from an intransitive. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Most grammarians will call it an intransitive verb, and make out that "he wrote" nothing to me, because there is no regular objective word after it. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. In such sentences as 1, call should a weak verb, intransitive, therefore active; indicative, past tense; has for its subject Lee. An English Grammar In Mr. Todd's edition of Johnson's Dictionary, this word is given as a verb intransitive also: "To take an academical degree; to become a graduate; as he graduated at Oxford." A Collection of College Words and Customs The government of all intransitive verbs can only be modal,—I walk with the stick. A Handbook of the English Language 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 We have gone through the examination of neuter and intransitive verbs, with the exception of the verb to be, which we propose to notice in this place. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. An intransitive verb is one which is complete in itself, or which is completed by other words without requiring an object. An English Grammar 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 The combination with the participle of an intransitive verb,—I have waited; thou hast hungered; he has slept. A Handbook of the English Language 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 Active verbs, we are told, are divided into transitive and intransitive. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. The important thing to observe is, many words must be distinguished as transitive or intransitive by use, not by form. An English Grammar Mi di, e.g., “man this, the man” is an absolutive form which may be used as the subject of an intransitive verb. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech The combination of have with an intransitive verb is irreducible to the idea of possession: indeed, it is illogical. A Handbook of the English Language 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 An alleviation of the difficulty has been sought in the adoption of the intransitive verb, which "expresses an action that is confined to the actor or agent." Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Notice that a verb of incomplete predication may be of two kinds,—transitive and intransitive. An English Grammar There is no sense in making approve an intransitive verb. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults The majority of verbs in our language are either transitive or intransitive, according to the sense in which they are used. Composition-Rhetoric 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 But act, in this case, is a neuter or intransitive verb, and wisely expresses the manner of action where there is none! Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Here we might supply the noun reason, as, "I know the reason why she blushed;" but the word is needless, and I should rather parse know as being intransitive. The Grammar of English Grammars 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 Complete and Incomplete Verbs.+—Some intransitive verbs make a complete assertion or statement without the aid of any other words. Composition-Rhetoric Almost any active intransitive verb, and sometimes even neuter verbs, are used as transitive. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures This verb is insisted on as the strongest proof of intransitive action; with what propriety, we will now inquire. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. And he thinks it better, to call those verbs intransitive, which are followed by that and a dependent clause, than to supply the very frequent ellipses which the other explanation supposes. The Grammar of English Grammars Some dictionaries give locate as an intransitive verb having that meaning, but—well, dictionaries are funny. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults All transitive verbs and some intransitive verbs require one or more words to complete the meaning of the predicate. Composition-Rhetoric A verb is intransitive when it has no object; as, "The waters came upon me;" "I am he who was, and is, and is to come." English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Was I a believer in neuter verbs and desired to get money, my first step would be to set up a boarding house for all believers in, and practisers of, intransitive verbs. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. "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 Here used transitively, "troubles," though in Old English it is generally intransitive, meaning to be careful or thoughtful; it is from the Anglo-Saxon 'Carian'; it became obsolete in the seventeenth century. The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Classes of Verbs.+—According to their uses in a sentence verbs are divided into two classes: transitive and intransitive. Composition-Rhetoric Verbs are of two kinds, transitive and intransitive. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures It will serve as a clear elucidation of the whole theory of intransitive verbs. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. "Some intransitive verbs may be rendered transitive by means of a preposition prefixt to them." The Grammar of English Grammars The simple fact is that Mr. Tucker has not happened to note the intransitive sense of "to fling" and "to whip," which has been current in the best authors for centuries. America To-day, Observations and Reflections A few verbs in our language are always transitive, and a few others are always intransitive. Composition-Rhetoric You perceive that the verb walks, in this example, is intransitive, because the action does not pass over to an object; that is, the action is confined to the agent John. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures It is said that a neuter or intransitive verb may be known from the fact that it takes after it a preposition. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. 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 An intransitive verb is sometimes made transitive by the aid of a preposition. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition When a word belonging to the subject is added to an intransitive verb in order to complete the predicate, it is termed an attribute complement. Composition-Rhetoric But an intransitive verb will not make sense with this sign, which fact will be shown by the following examples: smile, go, come, play, bark, walk, fly. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Let a believer in intransitive verbs step on a red hot iron; he will soon find to his sorrow, that he was mistaken when he thought that he could step without stepping any thing. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. 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 How may an intransitive verb sometimes be made transitive? Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition Among the incomplete intransitive verbs the most conspicuous are the copula and the copulative verbs. Composition-Rhetoric 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 Mr. Murray does not exactly approve of this distinction, but prefers to class the intransitive and neuter together. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. In the sentence, 'William hastens away,' the active intransitive verb hastens has indeed an agent, 'William,' but where is the object? The Grammar of English Grammars Set in some of its meanings is intransitive. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition 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 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 An intransitive verb "denotes action which is confined to the actor, and does not pass over to another object; as, I sit, he lives, they sleep." Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. 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 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 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 Verbs are regular or irregular, transitive or intransitive. How to Speak and Write Correctly Will you give me an example of an intransitive verb? Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. 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 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 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 An intransitive verb is one in which the action remains with the subject; as "I walk," "I sit," "I run." How to Speak and Write Correctly 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. 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 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 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 Many intransitive verbs, however, can be used transitively; thus, "I walk the horse;" walk is here transitive. How to Speak and Write Correctly And when he strikes himself, it "is confined within the subject," and hence the latter is an intransitive verb. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. The infinitive, in fact, is governed by the preposition to; and the preceding verb, if it has no other object, is intransitive. The Grammar of English Grammars 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 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 We can say "He lies on the ground," but we cannot say "He lies the ground," since the verb is neuter and intransitive and, as such, cannot have a direct object. How to Speak and Write Correctly Used to form intransitive and inchoative verbs of the third conj. Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary It must, however, be confessed that some verbs which thus take the infinitive after them, cannot otherwise be intransitive; as, "A great mind disdains to hold any thing by courtesy." 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 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 Hate was the only passion which survived, and that was but a deaf intransitive emotion coiled in his nature's depths. The Valley of Decision Yes; not only the metal, but the verb intransitive. The Puppet Crown Such are all those which come from intransitive or neuter verbs; and also those which so often occur in the tenses of verbs not passive. The Grammar of English Grammars There are many intransitive uses of the verb set; as, "The sun sets," "The tide sets toward the south," "The fruit has set," "He set out for Boston." Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking What looks at first, therefore, like a copula turns out to be merely an impersonal intransitive verb. The Soul of the Far East Its principal parts are two, he and pressed; the latter taking the particle on as an adjunct, and being intransitive. The Grammar of English Grammars But this sentence is fictitious, and one may doubt whether good authors can be found who use compose or composing as being intransitive. The Grammar of English Grammars |
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