AS we should all know by now, intransitive verbs are handicapped by their inability to take a direct object. Another way of saying this is that a subject cannot perform the action of intransitive ...

This study addressed the question of whether L2 learners are able to utilize verb’s argument structure information in online structural analysis. Previous L2 research has shown that L2 learners have ...

1 School of Foreign Studies, Chuzhou University, Chuzhou, Anhui, China 2 School of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China This bottom-up study applied a corpus-driven ...

TRANSITIVE VERB & INTRANSITIVE VERB – Here are the meaning and examples of these two(2) kinds of verbs. The tenses of the verb depends on the state of the action while the voice of the verb depends on ...

A reader took issue with the title of my column two weeks ago. Inter alia, he wrote; “It is incorrect to say ‘Beware of’ . The correct usage is either “Be aware of” or just ‘Beware’. In response, I ...

At the heart of language are verbs: the action words that make sentences come alive. Even if you haven’t heard of the phrase “transitive verb,” you’ve seen it in action before. It’s one of the most ...