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Questions about verbs that require an object; they are not complete without a direct object.
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Transitive verb meaning "to author a strong and direct refutation of or response to"
There’s some question about whether you mean to attack or to defend. The OED defines polemic as:
A controversial argument or discussion; argumentation against some opinion, doctrine, etc.; aggress …
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Transitivity of the verb "undertake"
If the verb is intransitive, then the senators merely undertook. Period. That doesn’t sound right. You have to undertake something. It takes an object and so is therefore transitive.
OLD gives these …
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“Comment on something” or “comment something”?
The OED says that the usage without on or upon is now “archaic”:
2. a. trans. To furnish with comments; to make a comment or comments on; to annotate. arch. Hence ˈcommented ppl. a.
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Meaning of "I command you for that"
Pretty sure this is a typo or misreading for:
I commend you for that.
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What is the grammar rule that states preference (in this example) between "exceeds" or "is e...
In a comment, John Lawler wrote:
The grammar rule that mandates exceeds instead of is exceeding in this case is the one disallows the progressive construction (is selling, is succeeding) when the …
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How can I use “fête” as a verb in active voice?
The word is fête, not fete, and it is a transitive verb with many “active” citations in the OED:
fête /feɪt/, v.
Etymology: ad. Fr. fêter, f. fête: see prec.
trans. To entertain (a person) …
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Is “bescumber” transitive or intransitive?
To bescumber, to scumber, scummerings, to discumber
Becumber is normally transitive — or at least, can be.
But you shouldn’t use it in casual, non-dialectal speech unless you’re being deliberately …
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"Email me" and "mail to me"
"Correct"? That's just what many people use. If that makes it "correct", so be it.
Some of us can't generate that construct. We just just say send me mail, always. Well, or mail me, I guess. I ne …
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Why "answer me" but not "answer me the question"?
Riddle me this, Batman.
Sometimes it actually is ok to “answer me a question”. Acceptability may vary. For example, this sounds fine to me:
If you can answer me this next question, you can go f …
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The gerund and its complementation
SUMMARY: Some -ing words are still verbs, while others have been denatured into deverbal nouns and deverbal adjectives.
Although visually indistinguishable letter by letter, these ex-verbs are easi …
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