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| + | Crystal, David, and David Crystal. The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin, 1999. | ||
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Revision as of 17:02, 13 November 2009
this is term used to refer to verbs and the amount of objects they can take on in a sentence. In the case of intransitives they are not able to take on a direct object. They carry the subject of the sentence and that is all.
References
Crystal, David, and David Crystal. The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin, 1999.
