A transitive verb is a verb that requires both a subject and one or more objects. Some examples of sentences with transitive verbs: The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... English grammar is the study of rules governing the use of the English language. ... The English language once had an extensive declension system similar to modern German or Icelandic. ... A noun, or noun substantive, is a part of speech (a word or phrase) which can co-occur with (in)definite articles and attributive adjectives, and function as the head of a noun phrase. ... In linguistics, a count noun (also countable noun) is a noun which can be modified by a numeral and occur in both singular and plural form, as well as co-occurring with quantificational determiners like every, each, several, most, etc. ... Collective nouns are subject-specific words used to define a grouping of people, animals, objects or concepts. ... In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a word that usually takes the place of a noun or noun phrase that was previously mentioned (such as she, it) or that refers to something or someone (I, me, you). Pronouns are often one of the basic parts of speech of the... A relative pronoun is a pronoun that marks a relative clause within a larger sentence. ... In semantics, a modifier is said to be restrictive if it restricts the reference of its head. ... Look up who in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An interrogative word (also known simply as an interrogative) is a function word used for the item questioned in a question. ... Personal pronouns are pronouns that refer to objects of a sentence, usually (but not always), people or animals. ... Gender-neutral or epicene pronouns are pronouns that neither reveal nor imply the gender or the sex of a person. ... A possessive pronoun is a word that attributes ownership to someone or something without using a noun. ... Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... Grammatical tense is a way languages express the time at which an event described by a sentence occurs. ... In linguistics, the grammatical aspect of a verb defines the temporal flow (or lack thereof) in the described event or state. ... In linguistics, many grammars have the concept of grammatical mood, which describes the relationship of a verb with reality and intent. ... In grammar, the voice of a verb describes the relationship between the action (or state) that the verb expresses and the participants identified by its arguments (subject, object, etc. ... This article is about the formation and usage of the passive voice in the English language. ... In grammar, a verb is transitive if it takes an object. ... An intransitive verb is a verb that has only one argument, that is, a verb with valency equal to one. ... In grammar, a ditransitive verb is a verb which takes a subject and two objects. ... In grammar, a reflexive verb is a verb whose semantic agent and patient (typically represented syntactically by the subject and the direct object) are the same. ... In linguistics, an auxiliary or helping verb is a verb whose function it is to give further semantic or syntactic information about the main or full verb which follows it. ... A stative verb is one which asserts that one of its arguments has a particular property (possibly in relation to its other arguments). ... In linguistics, a raising verb is a verb with an argument that is a verb and one or more arguments that are nouns, such that one of the noun arguments is semantically an argument not of the raising verb, but of the verb argument. ... Verbification, or Verbing is a process in linguistics whereby nouns, adjectives, and other words are transformed into verbs. ... An adverb is a part of speech-class. ... In grammar, an adverbial genitive is a noun declined in the genitive case that functions as an adverb. ... An adjective is a part of speech which modifies a noun, usually describing it or making its meaning more specific. ... Headline text hjvhwhatsgm,Possessive adjectives modify nouns. ... Demonstratives are deictic words that indicate which entities a speaker refers to, and distinguishes those entities from others. ... In English usage, a proper adjective is an adjective that takes an initial capital letter. ... A verb is a part of speech that usually denotes action (bring, read), occurrence (decompose, glitter), or a state of being (exist, stand). Depending on the language, a verb may vary in form according to many factors, possibly including its tense, aspect, mood and voice. ... The subject of a sentence is one of the two main parts of a sentence, the other being the predicate. ... An object in grammar is a sentence element and part of the sentence predicate. ...

• Mary sees John. (John is the direct object of "sees")
• You lifted the bag. (bag is the direct object of "lifted")
• I punished you. (you is the direct object of "punished")
• I give the book to you. (book is the direct object of "give" and "you" is the indirect object of "give")

Those transitive verbs that are able to take both a direct object and an indirect object are called ditransitive; an example is the verb give above. Verbs that require a single object are called monotransitive. In grammar, a ditransitive verb is a verb which takes a subject and two objects. ... A monotransitive verb is a verb that takes two arguments: a subject and a single direct object. ...

Verbs that don't require an object are called intransitive, for example the verb to sleep. Since you cannot "sleep" something, the verb acts intransitively. Verbs that can be used in a transitive or intransitive way are called ambitransitive; an example is the verb eat, since the sentences I am eating (with an intransitive form) and I am eating an apple (with a transitive form that has an apple as the object) are both grammatical. An intransitive verb is a verb that has only one argument, that is, a verb with valency equal to one. ... An ambitransitive verb is a verb that can be used both as intransitive or as transitive without requiring a morphological change. ...

There are languages which distinguish verbs based on their transitivity, which suggests that this is a salient linguistic feature. However, the definition of transitive verbs as those which have one object is not universal and is not used in grammars of many languages. For example, it is generally accepted in Polish grammar that transitive verbs are those which: Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. ...

• accept a direct object (in accusative in the positive form, and in genitive in the negative form), OR
• undergo passive transformation.

Both conditions are fulfilled in many instances of transitive verbs, ex. Maria widzi Jana (Mary sees John; Jana is the accusative form of Jan) - Jan jest widziany przez Marię (John is seen by Mary). There are two types of exceptions:

• verbs which govern genitive or instrumental (in both positive and negative forms) but with possible passive transformation, ex. Król rządzi tym krajem (A king rules this country; tym krajem is in instrumental) - Ten kraj jest rządzony przez króla (This country is ruled by a king).
• verbs which govern accusative in the positive form and genitive in the negative form but with no passive transformation, ex. Jan ma książkę (John has a book; ksiązkę is the accusative form of książka), Jan nie ma książki (John has not a book; książki is genitive).

If a verb accepts an object which is not in accusative and does not undergo passive transformation, it is considered intransitive, ex. Jan handluje kwiatami (John deals in flowers; kwiatami is in instrumental). In other words, verbs with one or even two objects may also be intransitive.

See also: Intransitive verbs An intransitive verb is a verb that has only one argument, that is, a verb with valency equal to one. ...