| 单词 | intransitive verb |
| 例句 | “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Be it known, that abound is strictly an intransitive verb! Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 "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 Here the reflective pronoun appears out of place, i.e., after a neuter or intransitive verb. A Handbook of the English Language The verb lie is an intransitive verb and can have no object after it. Every-Day Errors of Speech 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 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" 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 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 Rise is an intransitive verb, the action not passing over to an object. Every-Day Errors of Speech A predicative adjective becomes an intransitive verb, and is conjugated accordingly. The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales 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 Does a transitive or does an intransitive verb have both voices? Practical Grammar and Composition The government of all intransitive verbs can only be modal,—I walk with the stick. A Handbook of the English Language Sit is an intransitive verb, or one which has no object after it. Every-Day Errors of Speech 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. 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 Transitive and intransitive verbs, confusion of, 56; explanation of, 4, 55-56. Practical Grammar and Composition The combination with the participle of an intransitive verb,—I have waited; thou hast hungered; he has slept. A Handbook of the English Language Wake is both a transitive and an intransitive verb. Every-Day Errors of Speech 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. 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 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 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 An intransitive verb is one which is complete in itself, or which is completed by other words without requiring an object. An English Grammar 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. 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 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 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 There is no sense in making approve an intransitive verb. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults 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. 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 Almost any active intransitive verb, and sometimes even neuter verbs, are used as transitive. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Complete and Incomplete Verbs.+—Some intransitive verbs make a complete assertion or statement without the aid of any other words. Composition-Rhetoric 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 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. "Some intransitive verbs may be rendered transitive by means of a preposition prefixt to them." The Grammar of English Grammars 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 All transitive verbs and some intransitive verbs require one or more words to complete the meaning of the predicate. Composition-Rhetoric 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 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. 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 It will serve as a clear elucidation of the whole theory of intransitive verbs. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Many intransitive verbs, however, can be used transitively; thus, "I walk the horse;" walk is here transitive. How to Speak and Write Correctly What looks at first, therefore, like a copula turns out to be merely an impersonal intransitive verb. The Soul of the Far East 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. 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 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. 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. Will you give me an example of an intransitive verb? Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. 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. |
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