1364: Transitivity in Verbs Sep 5, 2018

There are many different ways to categorize verbs. There are head verbs, main verbs, infinitives, small verbs, etc, but sometimes even tricker to wrap one's head around is the difference between intransitive, transitive, and ditransitive verbs. The first cannot take a direct object, such as how nothing can be either 'smiled' or 'slept', and transitive verbs do have the ability to take one, sometimes necessarily for semantic reasons. Ditransitive are the rarest, and can take two direct objects such as 'gave' in "he gave the man the paper".