Sentence examples for intransitive from inspiring English sources

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intransitive

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Not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object.

  • The word "drink" is a transitive verb in "they drink wine", but an intransitive one in "they drink often."

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Though the word order has changed in our relative clause, the case of who should not: it is the same as he.Another way of putting it is to note that unlike consider, contend is intransitive: it does not take a direct object.

What could possibly be wrong with "leave the aircraft", "disembark", or just "get off"?But most galling is that the media have adopted the word whole-heartedly, both as a transitive (airlines deplaning passengers) and an intransitive verb (passengers deplaning).

Even though he values his spending money, his preferences make him susceptible to being used as a 'money pump.' Even if he does not serve as a money pump, an agent with intransitive preferences can get into a great deal of trouble.

Consideration of the following situation might help make it clear how intransitive preferences can arise (whether or not they are rational).

The distinction is sometimes marked as that between transitive and intransitive notions of consciousness, with the former involving some object at which consciousness is directed (Rosenthal 1986).

Arrow's result clearly extends the scope of analysis beyond the traditional focus of welfare economics, and nicely illuminates the difficulties of democratic voting procedures such as the Condorcet paradox (consisting of the fact that majority rule may be intransitive).

2. A rule that takes as input a Noun Phrase and an Intransitive Verb, and yields as output a Sentence: from John and sing it produces John is singing.

Writing from a broader linguistic perspective, Wierzbicka and Harkins (2001, p. 17) have noted modern spoken English's unusual scarcity of 'active' intransitive verbs for feeling and emotion and its preference for using 'passive' adjectives instead for these.

It is customary to distinguish between two uses of the term 'conscious', a transitive and an intransitive use.

Because sense-datum theories are most plausible when applied to intransitive bodily sensations, many philosophers, who believe that a naturalist account of ordinary perception can be given without introducing sense-data, have attempted to understand pains and other bodily sensations as species of ordinary perception (exteroception).

As we have seen, indirect realism, especially in the form of sense-datum theories, were also advanced as representationalist theories (perhaps excluding the intransitive bodily sensations).

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