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 ...

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 ...

If an action concerns only one person or thing, you mention only the person or thing that carries out the action (the subject) and the action itself (the verb). Verbs which describe such actions are ...

Both Zbyszek from Poland and Iqbal Ahmad from Pakistan write that they find it difficult to differentiate between transitive and intransitive verbs: 'Please explain the difference and give us some ...