Intransitive

• “Intransitive verb: 1. To practice the art or sport of fencing.”

  COWBOYS AND INDIANS

• “Intransitive verbs yield verbal nouns in -u of an active significance.”

  Etruscan grammatical sketch almost works

• “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.”

  Death and euphemisms in Etruria

• “In your learned paper on the Rise of the Intransitive, you do not mention some of the predecessors of enjoy.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

• “= Intransitive Pronominal Verbs = are of three kinds --”

  Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)

• “Intransitive Verbs made Pronominal from verbs ordinarily transitive”

  Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)

• “Verbs are divided into Auxiliary, Transitive and Intransitive.”

  Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)

• “The Spanish language abounds in Intransitive Pronominal verbs, i.e., verbs conjugated, same as the reflexive verbs, with a double pronoun = of the same person = all through, as --”

  Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)

• “Intransitive verbs express a state, as "to live," "to sleep," or an action that does not go beyond the doer, as "to go," "to walk.”

  Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)

• “Sometimes an Intransitive Verb takes an Accusative of Result which is of kindred etymology with the Verb.”

  New Latin Grammar

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