WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some verbs to work in certain sentence constructions. For instance, perhaps ...

When a sentence uses a transitive verb to describe an action, it’s necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it: “The woman spurned her suitor last week.” ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In this video, most of the verbs are transitive verbs, which means they are action verbs with direct ...