To recall, intransitive verbs are handicapped by their inability to take a direct object. Another way of saying this is that a subject cannot perform the action of intransitive verbs on a direct ...

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 ...

For those of the Christian faith, Advent is a season of waiting and anticipating the arrival of Christmas Day. The liturgical ...

From 100 per cent to the ancient origins of the “parting shot”, these are linguistic quirks that keep readers up at night.

Feal Lazim is a roman term that finds extensive usage in various sentences and different contexts. In English, the feal lazim is referred to as "Intransitive Verb" and it is driven by the English ...

Sometimes you can guess the meaning of a phrasal verb because it is related to the main verb. Look at this example again. Shall we give away all the old books in the office? The meaning is clearly ...

Abstract: Most of the previous studies on the user preferences assume that there is a personal transitive preference ranking of the consumable media like images. For example, the transitivity of ...

From Earl’s Court to Eyjafjallajökull ...

New poems commissioned by The Verb for the BBC centenary.