单词 | transitive |
释义 | transitive (once / 8653 pages) adjn Use the adjective transitive when you're talking about a verb that needs both a subject and at least one object, like "give" in this sentence: "I will give you a cupcake if you're really nice." You're only going to hear the word transitive in a grammar lesson, although you probably use transitive verbs all the time. While an intransitve verb, like to die, doesn't need an object — you can say "My dog died," for example — a transitive verb has a direct object upon which an action is performed. This grammatical meaning has been in use since the 1500s. WORD FAMILYtransitive: intransitive, transitively, transitiveness, transitives, transitivise, transitivity, transitivize+/intransitive: intransitively, intransitiveness, intransitives, intransitivise, intransitivity, intransitivize/transitivise: detransitivise/transitivize: detransitivize USAGE EXAMPLESFor the duration of this article, we are going be using “feminist” as a transitive verb. The Guardian(Nov 19, 2016) In California the term “rock star” has been turned into a transitive verb. Wall Street Journal(Sep 22, 2016) The transitive property always involves three elements, for example: if x=y and y=z, then x=z. Washington Post(Jun 30, 2016) 1adj designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning Ant intransitive designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object 2n a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical Syn|Hypo|Hyper transitive verb, transitive verb form doubly transitive verb, doubly transitive verb form a transitive verb that takes both a direct and an indirect object verb the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence |
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