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transitive verb

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Noun1.transitive verb - a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical
transitive, transitive verb form
verb - the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence
doubly transitive verb, doubly transitive verb form - a transitive verb that takes both a direct and an indirect object
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Speaking of "laying"--or "layin" as we say in Texas--it is worth repeating that "lie" is intransitive (you recline, for example) and cannot take a direct object while "lay" (I lay down my cards) always needs an object because it is a transitive verb (lay down your gun).
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The definite conjugation occurred very rarely even in case of the transitive verb.
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Often one has the impression that an inherently transitive verb, when it is used in an intransitive sense requires do-support to make the predicate complete, or to shift it more to the fight in the sentence giving it more weight in the functional sentence perspective (cf.
What makes a syntactic change stop? On the decline of periphrastic do ... by Wischer, Ilse / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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