transitiveness

Thân thiện

The teacher writes a sentence on the board to explain transitiveness.

Definition

Noun: - The grammatical property or relation created by a transitive verb. It refers to the quality of a verb that requires a direct object to complete its meaning. This term is synonymous with "transitivity."

Usage

The term "transitiveness" is a technical grammatical term used to describe a verb's ability to take a direct object. It is less common than its synonym "transitivity" but is used in the same contexts within linguistic analysis.

Examples

• The transitiveness of the verb "to build" is evident in the sentence "She built a house."
• Linguists study the transitiveness of verbs across different languages.
• Changing a verb's transitiveness can alter the sentence structure, as seen in pairs like "The window broke" (intransitive) and "He broke the window" (transitive).

Advanced Usage

• Degree of Transitiveness: Some verbs can exhibit different degrees of transitiveness, functioning as transitive in one context and intransitive in another (e.g., "She reads" vs. "She reads a book").

Variants and Related Words

• Transitivity (n): The more common synonym for transitiveness.
• Transitive (adj): Describing a verb that has the property of transitiveness (e.g., a transitive verb).
• Intransitive (adj): Describing a verb that does not take a direct object, the opposite of transitive.

Synonyms

• Transitivity

Antonyms

• Intransitiveness
• Intransitivity

Học thuật

Noun

1. the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb

Từ đồng nghĩa

• transitivity