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Definition of Transitive verb

1. Noun. A verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical.

Definition of Transitive verb

1. Noun. (grammar): A verb that is accompanied (either clearly or implicitly) by a direct object in the active voice. It links the action taken by the subject with the object upon which that action is taken. Consequently, transitive verbs can also be used in the passive voice when the direct object of the equivalent active-voice sentence becomes the subject. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Transitive Verb

Literary usage of Transitive verb

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown (1851)
"A transitive verb, as I have elsewhere shown, may both govern the objective ... Every active-transitive verb or participle has some «own or pronoun for its ..."

2. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough (1916)
"A transitive verb has or requires a direct object to complete its sense (see ... A transitive verb may often be used absolutely, ie without any object ..."

3. A Practical Grammar of the English Language by Noble Butler (1879)
"An infinitive, a gerund, or a proposition may be the object of a transitive Verb; as, " Boys love toplay;" "Boys love playing;" "I know who lives here" 8. ..."

4. Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the ... Annual Meeting by Southern Educational Association (1899)
"Another stumbling stone is the definition to the transitive verb. ... (1) "A transitive verb must be followed by a complement to name the person or thing ..."

5. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical by Henry Sweet (1900)
"When the combination of an intransitive verb with a preposition is logically equivalent to a transitive verb, we call the combination a group-verb. ..."

6. The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Forms of by Goold Brown (1856)
"In the sentence, " Here I rest," re«t is a neuter verb; but in the sentence, " Here I rest my hopes," rest is an active-transitive verb, and governs ..."

7. Essentials of English Grammar: For the Use of Schools by William Dwight Whitney (1877)
"A transitive verb takes a direct object, expressing that •which is immediately affected by the action of the verb; and sometimes also an indirect object, ..."

8. The Institutes of English Grammar: Methodically Arranged, with Forms for by Goold Brown (1857)
"I. An active-transitive verb is a verb that expresses an action which has ... Here I rest my hopes," rest is an active-transitive verb, and governs hopes. ..."

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