Meaning of indirect transitive | Babel Free

Definitions

Taking an indirect object.

not-comparable

Examples

“French indirect transitive verbs, i.e. verbs which take an indirect object, cannot be passive.”

“It is common, not only for perception verbs but also for verbs that convey a metaphorically directional action with partially affected objects (especially animate objects), to display canonical indirect transitive constructions.”

“Overall children's performance on direct transitive event (e.g. girl crumpling a paper) was not significantly different from their performance on the indirect transitive event (e.g. man putting powder in a liquid that changes its color).”

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