WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some verbs to work in certain sentence constructions. For instance, perhaps ...

Exploring verbs, intransitive and transitive, and the transition of the former to the latter, and the formation of transitive verbs. VERBS can be categorised as intransitive and transitive.

If an action concerns only one person or thing, you mention only the person or thing that carries out the action (the subject) and the action itself (the verb). Verbs which describe such actions are ...