We highlight and discuss in this edition specially selected transitive verbs that are disturbingly commonly misused, especially at “dizzying heights of journalism, public intellectualism, unionism, ...

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.” ...

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 ...

SET 1/2: Can WISDOM OF CIVILIZATION be a DIRECT OBJECT even though it is not receiving the action of the verb? ANSWER: According to EM, it is a DO because it 'receives the action' of CONTAIN. This is ...

The state of Pakistan is a dystopian transformation from a noun to a verb. Ostensibly formed to protect the rights of people purportedly subsumed under the colonial and later Congress rule, the state ...

We often see the frequent occurrence of the word resign and its derivative in the print, electronic and social media thanks to politicians who hand in resignation letters. Look at these news headlines ...

Listen to Prof Roly Sussex talk about how some verbs are actually transitive, and why. ABC Education brings you high-quality educational content to use at home and in the classroom. All our resources ...