Meaning of indirect transitive | Babel Free

Definitions

Taking an indirect object.

not-comparable

Equivalents

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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