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Intransitive verb: 1. To practice the art or sport of fencing.
COWBOYS AND INDIANS Rene Meertens 2010
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Intransitive verb: 1. To practice the art or sport of fencing.
Archive 2010-05-01 Rene Meertens 2010
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Intransitive verbs yield verbal nouns in -u of an active significance.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Intransitive verbs yield verbal nouns in -u of an active significance.
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The use of one or the other ending is determined by the transitivity of the verb: Intransitive verbs get the θ-participle and transitive verbs get the u-participle.
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In your learned paper on the Rise of the Intransitive, you do not mention some of the predecessors of enjoy.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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In your learned paper on the Rise of the Intransitive, you do not mention some of the predecessors of enjoy.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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= Intransitive Pronominal Verbs = are of three kinds --
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano
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Intransitive Verbs made Pronominal from verbs ordinarily transitive
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano
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Verbs are divided into Auxiliary, Transitive and Intransitive.
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano
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