Transitivity (Grammar)
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In linguistics, transitivity is a property of verbs that relates to whether a verb can take direct objects. It is closely related to valency. Traditional grammar makes a binary distinction between transitive verbs such as throw, injure, kiss that take a direct object, versus intransitive verbs such as fall or sit that cannot take a direct object. In practice, many languages (including English) interpret the category more flexibly: allowing, for example, ambitransitive verbs or ditransitive verbs. In functional grammar, transitivity is considered to…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In linguistics, transitivity is a property of verbs that relates to whether a verb can take direct objects. It is closely related to valency. Traditional grammar makes a binary distinction between transitive verbs such as throw, injure, kiss that take a direct object, versus intransitive verbs such as fall or sit that cannot take a direct object. In practice, many languages (including English) interpret the category more flexibly: allowing, for example, ambitransitive verbs or ditransitive verbs. In functional grammar, transitivity is considered to be a continuum rather than a binary category. The "continuum" view takes a more semantic approach, e.g. by taking into account the degree to which an action affects its object (so that the verb see is described as having "lower transitivity" than the verb kill).