Re: Question about transitivity/intransitivity
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 30, 2003, 1:35 |
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Sally Caves wrote:
> > But, "I ate the apple" -> "I ate", not *"The apple ate", "I killed the
> > spider" -> ?"I killed" ("kill" sounds awkward to me without an object)
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> How about "I murdered."
An odd thing I just noticed, "I killed" or "I murdered" both sound
awkward without an object, but "I used to kill" sounds perfectly fine.
"I used to murder" also sounds awkward. I tend to use "commit murder"
instead of "murder" when there's no expressed object.
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