Someone made them disappear gulfnews.com By Ruth Walker The distinction between transitive and intransitive verbs isn't usually the stuff of polite luncheon conversation. It's more the kind of thing that copy editors discuss when they're reasonably sure others aren't listening.
Board reverses examiner for overly relying on a dictionary definition without ... Lexology (registration) 12/278901), at issue was (1) whether the Examiner erred in relying on the intransitive verb definition of “flush” in finding that a reference discloses “a muffle that is flushed with shielding gas;” and (2) whether the Examiner erred in finding that a ...
Big major key to our music Wall Street Journal (blog) The verbs to baby-sit and is baby-sitting are hyphenated. And yes, you can baby-sit a child (transitive) as well as baby-sit for a child (intransitive), dictionaries now acknowledge. ? Run-down means dilapidated or ratty. The noun rundown refers to a ...
