NOUN
- a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical
How To Use transitive verb In A Sentence
- English is called a nominative-accusative language because both transitive and intransitive verbs take subjects. Behind Bars | ATTACKERMAN
- Thus, transitive verbs in idiomatic expressions frequently will not passivize (the cowboy kicked the bucket, but not * the bucket was kicked by the cowboy). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 4
- The past participle of a transitive verb is always passive except in such forms as _have chosen, had chosen_. Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
- It should be a ditransitive verb, meaning that it takes two objects, one in the accusative and one in the genitive. Archive 2008-03-01
- Earlier forerunners rely entirely on intransitive or quasi-transitive verbs, with the object preceded by a preposition.
- -- [MS.M. erased.] [440] [For the use of "dapple" as an intransitive verb, compare The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4
- So, when we place a noun before a verb as actor or subject, we say it is in the _nominative case_; but when it follows a transitive verb or preposition, we say it has another _case_; that is, it assumes a new _position_ or _situation_ in the sentence: and this we call the _objective_ case. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
- Transitive verbs take a direct object.
- If we interpret put as a ditransitive verb similar to tur 'to give', we can gain insight into Etruscan grammar. Archive 2008-03-01
- A transitive verb takes an object.
