Irregular verbs, the formation of transitive and causal verbs, and the treatment of compound verbs, are on the same lines as in Mth.
The past tense (of which the conjugation for a Maithili transitive verb is given above) is formed by adding pronominal suffixes to the past participle.
There is a long series of transitiveverbs formed from intransitives and of causal verbs formed from transitives, generally by adding ab (Skr.
The laws formulated by science--the transitive figments describing the relation between fact and fact--possess only a Platonic sort of reality.
The most rudimentary apperception, recognition, or expectation, is already a case of representative cognition, of transitivethought resting in a permanent essence.
An idea is an expression of life, and shares with life that transitive and elusive nature which defies definition by mere enumeration of its materials.
As we all survey two notes and their interval in one sensation (actual experience being always transitive and pregnant, and its terms ideal), so a trained mind might survey a whole composition.
Certain notions about physics might no doubt suggest themselves to the moralist, who never can be the whole man; he might suspect, for instance, that the transitiveintent of intellect and will pointed to their vital basis.
The transitive phases of consciousness, however, have themselves a reference to eternal things.
But fables, when hypostatised, forget that they, too, were transitive symbols and boast to reveal an undiscoverable reality.
It is therefore a fruit of experience, an ornament, a proof of animal vitality; but it is no vehicle for experience; it cannot serve the purposes of transitive thought or action.
If there is a transitive function in knowledge and an unselfish purpose in love, that is only because, at bottom, there is a self-reproductive, flying essence in all existence.
It could not be otherwise if reason is to remain something transitive and existential; for transition is unintelligible, and yet is the deepest characteristic of existence.
Moreover, truth may very well be identified with an impassible intellect, which should do nothing but possess all truth, with no point of view, no animal warmth, and no transitive process.
This transcendence is what gives knowledge its cognitive and useful essence, its transitive function and validity.
In intent we pass over from existence to ideality, the nexus lying in the propulsive nature of life which could not have been capped by any form of knowledge which was not itself in some way transitive and ambitious.
Just so the individual beauties that charm our attention and enchain the soul have only a transitive existence; they are momentary visions, irrecoverable moods.
Often both particles may be used, and both transitive and intransitive derivative verbs may be formed from the same primitive.
No general rule applicable to all transitive verbs can be laid down for the use of this form with mem-per-; practice and experience must form the only guide.
According as the primitive verb has a transitive or intransitive sense, the derivative verbs formed from it will take ber- or me- as the case may be.
The presence or absence of an object, and the character of the verb as transitive or intransitive, may be decided by asking the question “Lay [or laid] what?
In poetic phraseology especially, the transitive lay (in all its tenses) is used reflexively as an equivalent of lie, lay, etc.
The use of this word as a transitive verb, although supported by high authority, is not favored.
Although the dictionaries give both a transitive and intransitive place to this verb in the signification of “behave,” it should properly be used only reflexively, as a transitive.
The object in the active voice becomes the subject in the passive voice, so that only transitive verbs can properly be used in the passive voice.
A noun that completes the meaning of a transitive verb and describes its object, is called an =objective predicate=; as, They elected him president.
Change the voice of each transitive verb in the preceding lesson.
A transitive verb that represents the person or thing named by its subject as being acted upon is said to be in the =passive voice=; as, The horse was struck by James.
A verb that expresses an action or feeling that goes out from the agent or doer to something else, is called a =transitive verb=; as, He wrote a letter.
The verb to be is used as an auxiliary with the perfect participle of a transitive verb, to form the passive voice; as, I am hurt.
A transitive verb that represents the person or thing named by its subject as acting is said to be in the =active voice=; as, James struck the horse.
After all, the verb of being is fundamentally transitive, and, in some ways, the most transitive of all verbs, and so it is not illogical to bring its powers over the pronoun into accord with the powers exerted by the others.
Many verbs ordinarily used intransitively, particularly verbs of motion, have a transitive use when compounded with a preposition.
These participles are chiefly from verbs which have a transitive use.
In many compounds of transitive use, however, the dative is due to the general meaning of the verb, as with those spoken of in 1189.
Only verbs of transitive use have ordinarily a complete passive.
Only transitive verbs have all persons of the passive.
If the verb is of transitive use, the gerundive is proper, not the gerund (2240).
In the genitive, a transitive gerund with an object in the accusative is rare except in Plautus; ordinarily the gerundive is used (2240).
In the ablative a transitive gerund with a substantive object is not uncommon.
Conscious life, we find, is a continuous adjustment; each of its moments is a "transitive state.
Thus in modern English we can attach the suffix -ize to almost any word whatsoever, in order to give the latter a transitive meaning, and the Gr.
Daiyatam is an accusative which, like, Samayam is governed by the transitive verb Kurvita.
From ka, an affirmative particle; webeed, teeth; and eda, a transitive objective inflection.
A verb is called transitive when the action passes on to the following noun, as Seco baculum meum, I cut my stick.
Verbs transitive ending in o become passive by changing o into or, as Secor, I am cut.
If you reflect upon these examples for a few moments, you will have a clear conception of the nature of transitive and intransitive verbs.
It generally follows a transitive verb, a participle, or a preposition.
Learn, in the first of the preceding examples, is a transitive verb, because the action passes over from the nom.
Not proper, because who, which is the object of the action expressed by the transitive verb "esteem," is in the nominative case.
All Passive Verbs are formed by adding the perfect participle of an active-transitive verb, to the neuter verb to be.
Verbs are of two kinds, transitive and intransitive.
Him is in the objective case, the object of the action expressed by the active-transitive verb "hast left," and gov.
As verbs both have the meaning of the verbs from which they are made; both have tense and voice; both may be modified by adverbial expressions; and, if they are made from transitive verbs, both may take objects.
Every sentence containing a transitive verb must have the following parts: Agent(doer) Action Receiver The runaway horse injured John.
Only transitive verbs, therefore, may be changed to the passive voice.
There are certain intransitive verbs that sometimes have a preposition so closely connected with them that the two are treated almost like a transitive verb, and may be made passive; as, Active: The audience laughed at the speaker.
Direct object of a transitive verb; as, I have a good position.
Exercise 98= Tell whether each verb in the following sentences is transitive or intransitive and whether it is followed by a noun or a pronoun in the nominative or the objective case or by a complementary adjective.
All transitive verbs and some intransitive verbs require one or more words to complete the meaning of the predicate.
Some transitive verbs, from the nature of their meaning, take also an indirect object: [I gave her the book].
The complement of a transitive verb is called the object complement, or simply the object: [She found the book].
The majority of verbs in our language are either transitive or intransitive, according to the sense in which they are used.
Transitive verbs may have both voices, for they may represent the subject either as acting or as being acted upon.
The combination with the participle of a transitive verb.
A transitive verb, unaccompanied by a noun, either expressed or understood, is a contradiction in terms.
The verb dare is both transitive and intransitive.
Transitive verbs derived from intransitives by a change of the vowel of the root.
Now, although dare is both transitive and intransitive, durst is only intransitive.
Certain transitive verbs, the action whereof is extended not to the whole, but only to a part of their object, are followed by the preposition of and an objective case.
Of the divisions of verbs into active and passive, transitive and intransitive, unless there be an accompanying change of form, etymology takes no cognisance.
In transitive verbs the action is never a simple action.
The presence of a transitive verb implies also the presence of a noun; which noun is the name of the object affected.
The government of alltransitive verbs is necessarily objective.
The intransitive forms drink and lie, are strong; the transitive forms drench and lay, are weak.
Transitive verbs are naturally followed by some noun or other; and that noun is always the name of something affected by them as an object.
Transitive means passing over, and so all verbs that represent an act as passing over from a doer to a receiver are called +Transitive Verbs+.
The intransitive verb and preposition are together equivalent to a transitive verb in the passive voice.
Voice is that modification of the transitive verb which shows whether the subject names the actor or the thing acted upon+.
A Transitive Verb is one that requires an object+.
Name all the transitive verbs in Lesson 78, and give their voice.
In its several forms it stands for the finite forms and for the infinitive and the participle of verbs, transitive and intransitive, regular and irregular.
A transitive verb is conjugated in the +passive voice+ by joining its past participle to the different forms of the verb be.
Sentences containing a transitiveverb and a preposition before a noun are very common--"Powerless to affect, or to be affected by, the times.
The past participle of a transitive verb is always passive except in such forms as have chosen, had chosen.
In each of these sentences change the voice of the transitiveverb without altering the meaning of the sentence, and note the other changes that occur:-- 1.
Change the following transitiveverbs to the passive form, using first the regular and then the idiomatic construction:-- +Model.
Point out the transitive and the intransitive, the regular and the irregular verbs in Lesson 14, and classify the adverbs.
Set, as we shall first consider it, is a transitive verb, or one in which the action passes over to an object.
Wake is both a transitiveand an intransitive verb.
Raise is a transitive verb, or one in which the action passes over to an object.
To avoid further repetition in the method I have adopted to impress upon the mind the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs by contrasted sentences, I would refer the reader to the remarks under =Lay=.
This word in the sense here considered is a transitive verb, or one in which the action or state implied by the verb, passes over to an object.
Sometimes, however, they are regarded as a third class distinct both from transitive and intransitive verbs.
A substantive that completes the meaning of a transitive verb is called its direct object.
The compound personal pronouns may be used as the objects of transitive verbs or of prepositions when the object denotes the same person or thing as the subject.
Make a list of twenty verbs that are transitive in one sense, intransitive in another (§ 212).
A substantive that completes the meaning of a transitive verb is called its direct object+ (§ 100).
The predicate nominative is common after is and other copulative verbs, and after certain transitive verbs in the passive voice.
Many transitive verbs may be used absolutely,--that is, merely to express action without any indication of the direct object.
It is in the objective case, being the direct object of the transitive verb injured.
The "transitions," or the pronominal forms which indicate the passage of the action of a transitive verb from the agent to the object, play an important part in the Iroquois language.
