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 ...

It seems the grammatical blunder is worse in the use of verbs than possible in others. It is NOT ‘felicitate with, clap for him, ordered for, requested for, emphasise on, comprise of, ’ etc, as a ...

Listen to Prof Roly Sussex talk about how some verbs are actually transitive, and why. ABC Education brings you high-quality educational content to use at home and in the classroom. All our resources ...

When a sentence uses a transitive verb to describe an action, it’s necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it: “The woman spurned her suitor last week.” ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In this video, most of the verbs are transitive verbs, which means they are action verbs with direct ...