Questions about verbs that take direct, or both direct and indirect, objects.
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Usage of “accrue” in “it accrued to me to gently ask” [closed]
A newage hippie Facebook friend just sent me this. I was just wondering if it was syntactically correct,
It accrued to me to gently ask if you could consider extending the same respect, you would ...
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“The same X” and intransitive verbs
As I have had explained to me at great length, wonder is intransitive.
That's fine, but it can seem to take an object:
Jim: Yesterday I wondered what that mark on the wall was made by
Dave: I ...
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'Meeting us' or 'meeting with us'?
What is the difference between meeting with someone or meeting someone?
For example when I would like to ask someone if he is happy to meet with me and my friend for the first time, how should I ask? ...
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“Disappear” as a transitive verb
I hear it more on more frequently on the news, as in:
The North Korean regime has disappeared scores of dissidents over the past twenty years.
Has disappear always been used in such a way, as a ...
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Passive voice for sentences like “He is going somewhere”
I have this sentence that I trying to render into passive voice:
Tom is going to school.
According to the rules described in this document (“Passive voice with direct and indirect objects”), it ...
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"crash someone's couch” vs “crash on someone's couch”
I am wondering which one is the exact expression.
I thought that here "crash" is used in place of "occupy", which means the first one is the correct expression. On the other hand I have always heard ...
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Grammaticality of “help someone something” [closed]
A few times I've encountered phrases of the form "help yourself [something]", for example "help yourself some water". I consider this form to be ungrammatical, but I am not a native speaker. Is it ...
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Is this transitive or intransitive?
Let's consider this situation. A mother asks her child, "Who ate this apple?"
Then her son replies, "I didn't eat." In this situation, is "eat" an intransitive verb when "the apple" is omitted? I ...
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Is “develop” transitive in “technology developed by X”?
In the following phrase, is developed a transitive verb?
Technology developed by the XXX company.
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Use of gerund without preposition “to”
Can I use gerunds with the word "concede" without using preposition "to" as in the sentence below?
He concedes killing his wife.
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Which of the following sentences are correct?
Can someone please tell me which of the following sentences are correct and which are the differences between them?
Prove me wrong.
Prove I'm wrong.
Prove me I'm wrong.
Prove me that I'm ...
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“Something suffices the condition that” vs. “it suffices that something”
In a book I am reading there is a sentence:
Our initial version of Cauchy's theorem begins with the observation that it suffices that f(z) [a function] have a primitive in a region Ω
In ...
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Is the “live” in “He only lived a few days after the accident” intrasitive or transitive?
An example sentence from the Cambridge Dictionary:
[I] He only lived a few days after the accident.
[I] means "intransitive verb". He (subject) + lived (verb) + a few days (noun).
What part of ...
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deputizing and covering…“for” or not
Which of the following is grammatical?
I am deputizing for him/her.
I am deputizing him/her.
I think in the case of covering you have to use:
I am covering for him/her.
...or do ...
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Can the verb “wonder” simply take an object?
In this question, the questioner states
I wonder the origin of the word.
Can wonder take a simple object like that? Or should it be wonder about or wonder at or something similar (or something ...
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What's the difference between using the verb “change” transitively and intransitively?
I am confused about using transitive and intransitive verbs for making passive sentences. Especially when that verb can be both (like the verb change).
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“Bash something” vs. “bash on something”
I was looking into my dictionary that lists many uses of the verb bash but always transitive ones.
According to that, I would expect to say:
He bashed him.
He bashed the chair.
But I can see ...
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Is the sentence “It provides people an easy way to communicate.” grammatically correct?
My inclination is to say that the sentence needs to be “It provides people with an easy way to communicate.”, but I'm struggling to explain why. Certainly provide can be used transitively (“I provide ...
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To lose someone something
A headline today reads UBS Says Rogue Trader Lost Firm $2 Billion In Unauthorized Dealing.
Apparently, the meaning is that because of this trader, UBS lost $2 Billion.
Yet, the headline somehow ...
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Is “We embraced.” a complete sentence?
Can someone write "we embraced" to mean "we embraced each other?"
