librisx

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• librisx commented on the list transitive-verbs-only

  Blafferty 1) Thanks for the suggestion, but I definely want English transitives strung together like rosary beads so that each one illuminates the others--also because a Wordnyk technician is soon going to make available an editing tool that will allow me to delete or add a verb anywhere in my alphabetic list.

  blafferty 2) Thanks for the list! No, it doesn't list all the transitives, but it's a longer list than I myself was able to find.

  July 21, 2011

• librisx commented on the list transitive-verbs-only

  Wordnik user "bilby" remarks that some verbs on my list are "not necessarily transitive." He cites "abound" and "barge." Actually, he has identified two words that are not transitive at all and do not belong on my list: 'abound' and 'barge,' As verbs, they are ONLY intransitive. So, thanks, Bilby.

  But his main point that some verbs (quite a few, in fact) can be used both transitively and intransitively I've been aware of since I started my list. My list's purpose is not to isolate those verbs which are only transitive but rather to populate a list of as many A - Z English transitives regardless of shared use as intransitive verbs or as other parts of speech.

  Since transitive verbs constitute the "action verbs" of our speech and writing, and since textbooks and style books on writing encourage us to use them, I decided that at least ONE adequate list should exist (and be findable) on the Internet. Astoundingly, my own search for such a list online produced zero results.

  If any wordniker locates a substantial alpha list of transitive verbs on the Web, please inform me. Or if, as did Bilby, any wordniker spots a mistaken entry, please inform me. Last, if in my progress through the alphabet I neglect to list a transitive verb, please supply it.

  July 20, 2011