Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Linguistics Studies
Which are the strictly transitive verbs in English? Do they exist?
Which are the strictly transitive verbs in English?
These have been suggested as some of them:
attain, attribute, cause, comport, delineate, depict, eclipse, impute, induce, portray, predecease, resemble, squelch, subsume, supercede, utter
Could those ever sound good if appearing without an object - or with the object as implicit?
How about abandon as a candidate for strict transitivity?
?"Where necessary, we must not merely revise, we must abandon."
"Discard"?
?*The company eventually decided to discard.
These have been suggested as some of them:
attain, attribute, cause, comport, delineate, depict, eclipse, impute, induce, portray, predecease, resemble, squelch, subsume, supercede, utter
Could those ever sound good if appearing without an object - or with the object as implicit?
How about abandon as a candidate for strict transitivity?
?"Where necessary, we must not merely revise, we must abandon."
"Discard"?
?*The company eventually decided to discard.
Top answer
What do you mean, anon? Normally, I'd put an object after "discard".
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What do you mean, anon? Normally, I'd put an object after "discard".
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There are such verbs which can't take objects like 'disappear'. However, your list contains verbs that can be used both transitively and intransitively.
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