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Definition of intransitive in English: intransitiveadjective ɪnˈtrɑːnzɪtɪvɪnˈtranzɪtɪvɪnˈtrɑːnsɪtɪvɪnˈtransɪtɪv (of a verb or a sense or use of a verb) not taking a direct object, e.g. look in look at the sky. 不及物动词的,不及物的 (如: look at the sky 中的 look )。TRANSITIVE 的反义词 The opposite of transitive Example sentencesExamples - To give an account of these sentences, a proponent of the equational analysis would have to postulate that the verb is ambiguous between a transitive and an intransitive meaning.
- An ergative system is one in which the subject of an intransitive verb is treated grammatically like the direct object of a transitive verb, while the subject of a transitive verb is treated differently.
- Later she will learn about transitive and intransitive verbs, but in this exercise she could see that the verb cards weren't all alike.
- In particular, similar patterns exist for other cases of verbs combining with intransitive prepositions (or ‘particles’, as some people call them).
- A problem confronting this assumption is the large number of intransitive, unergative verbs in German and English that occur in accomplishment expressions.
- It is inconceivable that Will does not know the difference between a transitive and an intransitive verb.
- Verbs can be either transitive or intransitive a transitive verb governs an object, whereas an intransitive verb does not.
- The real challenges always came with the sophisticated adjectives, the adverbs, and the intransitive verbs.
- The combination of verbs with intransitive prepositions is one of the many pseudopods of morphological quasi-regularity that extend into the phrasal domain in English.
- We may be confused about this if we do not distinguish, as we clearly should, between transitive and intransitive senses of the verb ‘to move’.
- In this respect, adjectives are exactly like intransitive verbs.
- For me, the intransitive use of ‘bore easily’ is a minor cliché, that is, a phrase I recognize when I see it as a set phrase, even though I might not see it all that often.
- For the true writer, he had once declared, to write is an intransitive verb: one does not write something, one simply writes.
- The object of knowledge is intransitive, the knowledge we have of it is transitive.
- But if you read it closely, you'll see I'm using the intransitive plural subjunctive tense.
- Moral actions are unlike other actions in that they have both transitive and intransitive effects.
- When did it become cooler to be an intransitive verb than a transitive verb?
- And although I did a bit of a double-take, I soon got the idea of what was meant by that stunningly ungrammatical sleeps obedience - with its intransitive verb assigned a direct object in defiance of all syntactic decency.
- The becoming is not a becoming something; it remains active and intransitive.
- Further, she suggests that ‘whereas poetic language is now more or less accepted as autonomous and intransitive, fiction and narrative still suggest a transitive and referential use of words’.
Derivativesadverbɪnˈtransɪtɪvliɪnˈtranzɪtɪvli It seems that our case is a case about disqualification and it is better - we would encourage using that word rather than ‘recuse’ transitively or intransitively. Example sentencesExamples - One obvious step was to look on the Web for this particular verb used intransitively - or better yet, find a way to search more generally for sentences according to linguistically relevant lexical and/or syntactic criteria.
- No, said another student, you can use find intransitively.
- Furthermore, the verbs are usually transitive, though occasionally they are used intransitively with a preposition like for, of, or about introducing the object.
- The verb ‘to right’ cannot be used intransitively on this level of abstraction.
noun ɪntransəˈtɪvɪtiɪntranzəˈtɪvɪti Here is an openness and intransitivity, an attentiveness that is both alert and unfixed, the ‘radical break with transitivity’ that excites Foucault in the Bataille essay and that he characterizes as ‘Greek’. Example sentencesExamples - Or in other words, can intransitivity or immediacy become transitive and mediated?
- They will instead adjust their preferences to eliminate the intransitivity.
- Of even the transitive verbs several occur in isolation from their normal object and continue this state of intransitivity where the normal relations between process and object are suspended.
- The intransitivity of preferences must be negotiated.
OriginEarly 17th century: from late Latin intransitivus 'not passing over', from in- 'not' + transitivus (see transitive). Definition of intransitive in US English: intransitiveadjective (of a verb or a sense or use of a verb) not taking a direct object, e.g. look in look at the sky. 不及物动词的,不及物的 (如: look at the sky 中的 look )。TRANSITIVE 的反义词 The opposite of transitive Example sentencesExamples - When did it become cooler to be an intransitive verb than a transitive verb?
- Moral actions are unlike other actions in that they have both transitive and intransitive effects.
- In this respect, adjectives are exactly like intransitive verbs.
- The real challenges always came with the sophisticated adjectives, the adverbs, and the intransitive verbs.
- The combination of verbs with intransitive prepositions is one of the many pseudopods of morphological quasi-regularity that extend into the phrasal domain in English.
- An ergative system is one in which the subject of an intransitive verb is treated grammatically like the direct object of a transitive verb, while the subject of a transitive verb is treated differently.
- For me, the intransitive use of ‘bore easily’ is a minor cliché, that is, a phrase I recognize when I see it as a set phrase, even though I might not see it all that often.
- To give an account of these sentences, a proponent of the equational analysis would have to postulate that the verb is ambiguous between a transitive and an intransitive meaning.
- A problem confronting this assumption is the large number of intransitive, unergative verbs in German and English that occur in accomplishment expressions.
- For the true writer, he had once declared, to write is an intransitive verb: one does not write something, one simply writes.
- The becoming is not a becoming something; it remains active and intransitive.
- Verbs can be either transitive or intransitive a transitive verb governs an object, whereas an intransitive verb does not.
- And although I did a bit of a double-take, I soon got the idea of what was meant by that stunningly ungrammatical sleeps obedience - with its intransitive verb assigned a direct object in defiance of all syntactic decency.
- The object of knowledge is intransitive, the knowledge we have of it is transitive.
- But if you read it closely, you'll see I'm using the intransitive plural subjunctive tense.
- Further, she suggests that ‘whereas poetic language is now more or less accepted as autonomous and intransitive, fiction and narrative still suggest a transitive and referential use of words’.
- We may be confused about this if we do not distinguish, as we clearly should, between transitive and intransitive senses of the verb ‘to move’.
- In particular, similar patterns exist for other cases of verbs combining with intransitive prepositions (or ‘particles’, as some people call them).
- It is inconceivable that Will does not know the difference between a transitive and an intransitive verb.
- Later she will learn about transitive and intransitive verbs, but in this exercise she could see that the verb cards weren't all alike.
noun An intransitive verb. Example sentencesExamples - Those words: am, and I - put them together, no complement intended, just the grim intransitive marked by a full stop.
- Are transitives conjoined with intransitives bad?
- It is traditional to distinguish two types of intransitives, which are sometimes referred to by the strange terms, ‘unergative’ and ‘unaccusative’.
- I'm also not sure what would happen with intransitives.
OriginEarly 17th century: from late Latin intransitivus ‘not passing over’, from in- ‘not’ + transitivus (see transitive). |