Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being transitive.
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- noun The quality of being
transitive .
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- noun the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb
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Examples
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When they follow any form of the simple verb of being they take the objective form, as in its me, it aint him, and I am him, probably because the transitiveness of this verb exerts a greater pull than its function as a mere copula, and perhaps, too, because the passive naturally tends to put the speaker in the place of the object.
Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 4. The Pronoun Henry Louis 1921
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