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Questions about verbs that require an object; they are not complete without a direct object.
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"herald" as as intransitive verb?
The Free Dictionary defines herald as
A person who carries or proclaims important news; a messenger.
One that gives a sign or indication of something to come; a harbinger: The crocus is a herald of …
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Literary devices and sentence structure in Matthew 7:1 (KJV)
The literary device at play in your cited verse is parallelism, much stricter in the original Koiné:
Μὴ κρίνετε ἵνα μὴ κριθῆτε
mē krinete hina mē krithēte
Not (y’all) judge so that not (y’all) should …
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Can "procrastinate" be a transitive verb?
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In the 19th century and before, the transitive use of procrastinate in the sense ‘delay, postpone’ is quite frequent:
This motion was opposed as tending to procrastinate the funding busine …
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Does a transitive verb always require a direct object?
Dictionaries tend to be rather literal when it comes to categorizing verbs as transitive or intransitive. For instance, American Heritage lists three intransitive uses of toss:
To be thrown her …
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