Sorry, Mike. Let me ask one more thing to make things clear.
I have a question on this part.
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Originally Posted by MikeNewYork Yes, in my opinion, "matter" is an intransitive verb. There is no transfer of action from the subject to an object with "matter". It is a state of being. |
Is this always true? I mean, if a verb is about a state of being, is it true that it never has a noun to be followed as an object? Take "mean", for example. In my opinion, the verb "mean" indicates a state of being; "That means X" is semantically equivalent to "That is X". However, grammatically "mean" is a transitive verb and, say, in "That means nothing", "nothing" is an object, not an adverb.