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Definition of Intransitive verb
1. Noun. A verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object.
Definition of Intransitive verb
1. Noun. (grammar) An action verb not taking a direct object. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intransitive Verb
Literary usage of Intransitive verb
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"30, col. I. •+• Icel. visna, to wither. ß. This is an intransitive verb, with
formative -n-, .... intransitive verb ..."
2. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical by Henry Sweet (1900)
"When an intransitive verb requires a noon-word to complete its meaning, the noun-word
... The meaning of a transitive as well as an intransitive verb may be ..."
3. The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Forms of by Goold Brown, Henry Kiddle (1874)
"An adive-intransitive verb is a verb that expresses an action which has no person
... An active-intransitive verb, followed by a preposition and its object, ..."
4. English Grammar on the Productive System: A Method of Instruction Recently by Roswell Chamberlain Smith (1847)
"Л neuter or intransitive verb, by tne addition of a preposition, ... How can an
intransitive verb become la resemble, strictly speaking, a transi- ' Meaning ..."
5. The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Forms of by Goold Brown, Henry Kiddle (1873)
"An active-intransitive verb is a verb that expresses an action which has no ...
An active-intransitive verb, followed by a preposition and its object, ..."
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