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Intransitive verbs do not take a direct object or complement.
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Is "freak-out" an active or a passive experience?
You're touching on a number of concepts here: transitive, intransitive; active, passive; grammatical, semantic.
When I heard about the election results,
Transitive, active:
it freaked me out.
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How is transitivity defined in CGEL?
The CGEL introduction to transitivity of verbs begins on p 216 with:
Transitivity
The default type of internal core complement is an object (O). Whereas all canonical clauses contain an S, they may o …
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