Transitive (definition)
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Transitivity is used to refer to the number of dependent clauses that a verb can take on. In the case of transitive that number would be one (a direct object).
References
Crystal, David, and David Crystal. The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin, 1999.
Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. The language library. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1997.
