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With verbs there are intransitive verbs that don't take an object, and transitive verbs that do take an object.
The relationship "A loves B" is not reflexive, transitive, or symmetric.
"Escuchar" is a transitive verb in Spanish, unlike its English equivalent "listen to."
It's a transitive verb.
Tom doesn't understand the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs.
That's a transitive verb.
This verb can be transitive or intransitive.
This verb can be either transitive or intransitive.
Though these verbs are transitive in Esperanto, in Latin their objects are expressed in a different case than the accusative.
This is a transitive verb in English.
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For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy.
The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".
Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.
"Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation: if Alice is an ancestor of Bob, and Bob is an ancestor of Carol, then Alice is an ancestor of Carol.
This means that subcategorization properties do not allow us to distinguish between transitives and intransitives (both types of verbs are allowed, but not obliged, to take a direct object).
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