intransitive verb
collocation in Englishmeaningsofintransitiveandverb
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intransitive
adjective
uk/ɪnˈtræn.sə.tɪv/us/ɪnˈtræn.sə.t̬ɪv/
(of a verb) having or needing ...
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verb
noun[C]
uk/vɜːb/us/vɝːb/
a word or phrase that describes an action, condition, ...
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(Definition ofintransitiveandverbfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofintransitive verb
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But the morphological patterns that create distinctive transitive andintransitiveverbstems are derivational.
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So here we can say that a noun is the subject of anintransitiveverbwhich is modified by a prepositional phrase.
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This was accomplished by having anintransitiveverbin the second clause.
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In the case of ch'inank ch'oolej (class 1c), the adjective ch'ina means 'small', and the derivedintransitiveverbch'inank means 'to become small'.
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It also shows that the predicative complementation variant emerges out of anintransitiveverbwhere there is a semantic relationship with the subject.
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Around the same time, theintransitiveverb"to wreck" slipped into my son's lexicon, thence into our household and lives.
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In one, a normallyintransitiveverbsurfaces (as it were) in transitive form.
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To determine whether a child knows that a particular verb is mixed, s\\he must use both the transitive andintransitiveverbframes.
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Since los only combines with intransitive verbs, the result of such a combination is, again, anintransitiveverb.
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The most commonly produced familiarintransitiveverbwas fall.
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Since the passive of anyintransitiveverbwill be subjectless, and hence unacceptable, nointransitiveverbmay passivize.
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In their view, the -bar-derivation applies to anintransitiveverband the particle is combined with the result later.
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For example, die in its literal sense is anintransitiveverb, and it assigns a single semantic role to its subject.
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It is thus questionable whether children at the earliest stages of language development operate with abstract representations of the transitive andintransitiveverbframes.
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Moreover, for those verbs where the children produced both the transitive andintransitiveverbframe, there is little evidence of a bias in use towards the intransitive frame.
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I remind him that "vanish" is anintransitiveverb.
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Absolutive or nominative markers mark the actor of anintransitiveverband the object of a transitive verb.
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It is a derived form of theintransitiveverbform constrained.
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