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Definition of Transitive verb form
1. Noun. A verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical.
Generic synonyms: Verb
Specialized synonyms: Doubly Transitive Verb, Doubly Transitive Verb Form
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transitive Verb Form
Literary usage of Transitive verb form
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New York Teacher, and the American Educational Monthly (1869)
"... anymore than " He is loving,"—though Brown and others seem to regard the latter
as a good English transitive-verb form, and insert it in their grammars. ..."
2. The American Educational Monthly: A Magazine of Popular Instruction and (1869)
"... anymore than " He is loving,"—though Brown and others seem to regard the latter
as a good English transitive-verb form, and insert it in their grammars. ..."
3. Lessons in the Speaking and Writing of English by John Matthews Manly, Eliza Randall Simmons Bailey (1912)
"4. Tense. 5. Person and number (if it has any). 6. Construction. EXERCISE 1.
(a) Choose some transitive verb; form all ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"... has no corresponding active- transitive verb form. Of party names and nicknames
may be mentioned Whig and Tory, of the pre-revolutionary era, ..."
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