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When a sentence uses a transitive verb to describe an action, it’s necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it: “The woman spurned her suitor last week.” ...

WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some verbs to work in certain sentence constructions. For instance, perhaps ...

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Abstract: A method exists for detecting ambiguous expressions in requirements specifications using a dictionary focused on transitive verbs and their objects. This dictionary is constructed by ...

As developers rely more and more on open source components to build software, the number of transitive dependencies increases significantly. These “hidden” dependencies can create complex dependency ...

Imagine trying to speak without expressing possibility, permission,or necessity; it would be like painting without colour. That’s were the modal verb step in. These special helping verbs—can, could, ...

Nama, a Papuan language spoken in southern New Guinea, indexes the person and number of the A argument of a transitive verb with a suffix, and the P argument with a prefix. For a large subset of ...

If your teen mentions “shipping,” chances are it does not have to do with a package is arriving. Nor does “ship” involve a boat or water vessel. In fact, it refers to relationships. Merriam-Webster ...

This design spec was created before the feature was implemented, and may no longer be up to date, especially after other related features are implemented. Check our official docs for the most up to ...

Phrasal verbs are verbs with more than one word like 'wake up' and 'look forward to'. There are hundreds of them in English and they can be quite tricky... But don't freak out! Georgie is going to ...