A verb that does not need a direct object to complete its meaning. Run, sleep, travel, wonder, and die are all intransitive verbs. (Compare transitive verb.)
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It classifies English verbs used without an object into four categories: 1) pure intransitive verbs, such as arrive, rise, and sleep; 2) ergative intransitive verbs, such as break, increase, and open; 3) transitive-converted intransitive verbs of activity, such as eat, hunt, and read;
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An intransitive verb cannot be used in the passive voice. - One of 793 English language usage polls covering many aspects of English, including grammar, usage and vocabulary. ... In some languages intransitive verbs can be used in passive voice. There are two kinds of passive voices. I do not know the terminology in English...
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Depending on the type of object they take, verbs may be transitive, intransitive, or linking. ... An intransitive verb, on the other hand, cannot take a direct object: ... Here the verb "moves" is used as an intransitive verb and takes no direct object.
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Intransitive verbs are used without objects. They stand by themselves without acting on a noun or pronoun. Although they can be modified in meaning using adverbs or phrases, they cannot take a noun as an object. An example is the English verb "to flourish" and its Spanish equivalent, florecer.
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In this lesson yo uwill review frequently used INTRANSITIVE PHRASAL VERBS, i.e., phrasal verbs that are not followed by an object. Such phrasal verbs are always inseparable. However, a few of these phrasal verbs have additional meanings in which they become separable phrasal verbs. ... 613 - INTRANSITIVE PHRASAL VERBS...
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In mathematics, the term intransitivity is used for related, but different, properties of binary relations: A relation is transitive if, whenever it relates some A to some B, and that B to some C, i...
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In grammar, an intransitive verb does not take an object. In more technical terms, an intransitive verb has only one argument (its subject), and hence has a valency of one. For example, in English, ...
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neu·ter  ; adj.; 1. Grammar; a. Neither masculine nor feminine in gender. b. Neither active nor passive; intransitive. Used of verbs. 2. ; a.
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A finite verb is considered transitive or intransitive depending upon its relationship with some other words in the sentence. Another way of saying this is that the division into transitive and intransitive is based on syntax. ... At rare times intransitive verbs are used transitively.
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