"Transitive verb" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... be used in either an active or a neuter sense. In the sentence, "Here I rest," rest is a neuter verb; but in the sentence, "Here I rest my hopes," rest is an active-transitive verb, and governs hopes. And a few that are always active in a grammatical sense, as necessarily requiring an object after them, do not always indicate such an exertion of force as we commonly call action. Such perhaps are the verbs to have, to possess, ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... the combination of two nouns standing in objective relation to each other, that is, one of whose components is derived from a transitive verb: ...
— Compound Words - Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #36 • Frederick W. Hamilton
... has the nominative, nominative-agent, genitive, accusative, instrumental, dative and ablative cases. In the nominative, there is no change in the noun, except when it is the subject of a transitive verb, and then it requires the agent-suffix; as, Wuthung wirrungan burdumin, a man a dog beat; leuru wirringal kurgin, a woman a perch caught; wirrunganu gure bundin, a dog a ...
— The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales • Robert Hamilton Mathews
... into the heritage of common speech. Listing "burbank" as a transitive verb, Webster's New International Dictionary defines it: "To cross or graft (a plant). Hence, figuratively, to improve (anything, as a process or institution) by selecting good features and rejecting bad, ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda
... hundred octavo pages. It is a work evidently of great labor, and is devoted chiefly to the variations of the verbs; yet its lack of completeness may be judged from the single fact that the "transitions," or in other words, the combinations of the double pronouns, nominative and objective, with the transitive verb, which form such an important feature of the language, are hardly noticed; and, it may be added, though the conjugations are mentioned, they are not explained. The work, indeed, would rather perplex than aid an investigator, and ...
— The Iroquois Book of Rites • Horatio Hale |
