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Warn is intransitive in the headline above, since the warning is delivered generally.
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Warn is intransitive in the headline above, since the warning is delivered generally.
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Warn is traditionally a transitive verb (Pat warns Bob …) but developed intransitive use (Pat warns that/of/against …) about 100 years ago, according to Robert Burchfield in the third edition of Fowler’s Modern English Usage.
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Warn is traditionally a transitive verb (Pat warns Bob …) but developed intransitive use (Pat warns that/of/against …) about 100 years ago, according to Robert Burchfield in the third edition of Fowler’s Modern English Usage.
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'Warn't he like that Myzepper chap, I see at the circus, bound athert gray mare!' chuckled the waggoner.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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'Warn't he like that Myzepper chap, I see at the circus, bound athert gray mare!' chuckled the waggoner.
Evan Harrington — Complete George Meredith 1868
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'Warn't he like that Myzepper chap, I see at the circus, bound athert gray mare!' chuckled the waggoner.
Evan Harrington — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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The filing under the state's "Warn" law, requires employers to give 90 days notice on mass layoffs.
Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal 2009
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(Warn your local library first so they'll be ready for the onslaught!)
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(Warn your local library first so they'll be ready for the onslaught!)
Library Services 2010
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