"Please open," said the dentist, and these words gave me something to think about during the uncomfortable moments of oral inspection that followed. Because what she actually said was 開いてください (Aite ...

Intransitive verbとTransitiveの前にInがついているので、「Transitiveじゃない」動詞、受け渡さない動詞、目的語とかに動詞の力が及ばない動詞、つまり目的語を取らない動詞、主語と自分(動詞)だけで文を完結させることができる動詞。 の形で文を文法上完結さ ...

Listen to Prof Roly Sussex talk about how some verbs are actually transitive, and why. ABC Education brings you high-quality educational content to use at home and in the classroom. All our resources ...

Linking verbと言えば、すぐにこの五つ思い出せるように。 is, am, are, was, were Action verbはlook, have, eat, playみたいなやつらだったよね。 で、今日の話は、このAction verbというやつにはさらに二種類あるという話。 動作を表す動詞であるAction verbには二種類あるんだ！

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 ...

AS we took up in this column last week, intransitive verbs like "gone" and "disappear" are of the kind that can't pass on their action to a direct object. This is why sentence constructions like "The ...

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 ...

He's not her usual type, but she fell for him after dating for a couple of months. He fell for her on the first date. to cheat on (somebody): to secretly have a romantic or sexual relationship with ...

Ruth Walker writes:Have you ever seen people vote with their feet for a certain path across a stretch of green, on a campus, perhaps, or in a public park? Have you ever seen people vote with their ...

We often see the frequent occurrence of the word resign and its derivative in the print, electronic and social media thanks to politicians who hand in resignation letters. Look at these news headlines ...