A transitive verb mandates that there has to be an object there Sam devoured the pizza. You can't just say, Sam devoured.

I want to change the verb.

It's not a noun. It's a verb.

I mean, we use TiVo as verb.

So a tempting generalization for a child, for an adult, for a computer is that any verb that can appear in the construction, subject verb thing to a recipient can also be expressed as subject verb recipient thing.

I want us all to change the verb.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb.

The verb is the chassis of the sentence.

Why would we use that verb, it doesn't feel right?

This verb is normally used only in the third person.

An intransitive verb, such as dine, for example, can't take a direct object.

There is no verb for compassion, but you have an adverb for compassion.

And if there is a verb that comes with desire, it is to want.

And you've achieved that and that makes your win doubly big, triply big.

Even so, the treaty bodies, where such exist, have a doubly restricted view.

So if there is a verb, for me, that comes with love, it's to have.

And we're laughing doubly then because he's the body, but it's also Voice offstage Richard.

I want the verb to be educate, or activate, or engage, or confront, or defy, or create.

They were sometimes viewed with suspicion by their neighbours and consequently suffered doubly from discrimination and marginalization.

For example, you can use the verb go and the prepositions to and from in a literal, spatial sense.

The Latin word cogito is derived from the prefix co, meaning together, and the verb agitare, meaning to shake.

Accordingly, besides noun declension patterns, there also existed a greater variety of verb conjugation patterns than in Modern English.

If we teach girls to change the verb we will actually enforce the girl inside us and the girl inside them.

In the 18th century, it became a verb, and it meant to swindle or ridicule or to make fun of someone.

They Will say our Lord! whosever hath brought this upon us, Unto him increase doubly the torment of the Fire.

They Will say our Lord! whosever hath brought this upon us, Unto him increase doubly the torment of the Fire.

Well, in both cases, the thing that is construed as being affected is expressed as the direct object, the noun after the verb.

But she who obeys Allah and His Messenger and does good works shall be doubly recompensed for her We have made a generous provision.

But she who obeys Allah and His Messenger and does good works shall be doubly recompensed for her We have made a generous provision.

Wives of the Prophet! Any one of you who commits a flagrant act of misconduct shall be doubly punished. That is easy enough for God.

Wives of the Prophet! Any one of you who commits a flagrant act of misconduct shall be doubly punished. That is easy enough for God.

O wives of the prophet! whoever of you commits an open indecency, the punishment shall be increased to her doubly and this is easy to Allah.

O wives of the prophet! whoever of you commits an open indecency, the punishment shall be increased to her doubly and this is easy to Allah.

But those of you who obey God and His Messenger and do good deeds, shall be doubly rewarded. For them We have made an excellent provision.

But those of you who obey God and His Messenger and do good deeds, shall be doubly rewarded. For them We have made an excellent provision.

And what I want to suggest is that, having talked to girls, because I just finished a new book called I Am an Emotional Creature The Secret Life of Girls Around the World, I've been talking to girls for five years, and one of the things that I've seen is true everywhere is that the verb that's been enforced on girl is the verb to please.

Now this is doubly ironic when you consider that what gives comedy its edge at reaching around people's walls is the way that it uses deliberate misdirection.

So which verbs go in which construction the problem with which I began depends on whether the verb specifies a kind of motion or a kind of possession change.

Probably, according to what many linguists believe, fully modern language, syntactic language subject, verb, object that we use to convey complex ideas, like I'm doing now, appeared around that time.

This sixtieth landmark session of the General Assembly is doubly significant for Sri Lanka, as this year we mark the fiftieth anniversary of our membership in the United Nations.

Using hold in this way is both completely conventional and deeply misleading. In any other common English language usage, hold is an active verb or a noun with a similar connotation.

MONTEVIDEO Central bankers continue to fret about frothy asset markets as well they should, given the financial crisis of 2008 2009. Having been burned once, they are now doubly shy.

And that applies doubly to Europeans. It would be absurd if we had to suffer a real catastrophe again in order to understand what European integration has always been about.

And whoever of you is obedient to Allah and His Apostle and does good, We will give to her reward doubly, and We have prepared for her an honorable sustenance.

And whoever of you is obedient to Allah and His Apostle and does good, We will give to her reward doubly, and We have prepared for her an honorable sustenance.