Intransitive (definition)

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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.