An intransitive verb cannot be used in the passive voice. |
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Added: August 2003 |
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| jill - 4th November 2003 17:36
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False. Example:
The sentence was not easily parsed.
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| Henry - 10th November 2003 08:35
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| I don't understand Jill's example. After all, parse is a transitive verb.
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| sameer - 17th November 2003 20:42
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| Jill's example is wrong,because parse is a transitive verb, and the sentence was parsed by somebody
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| chainsaw - 2nd December 2003 02:20
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True. Intransitive verbs
by definition don't have
direct objects. Passive
voice requires that the object of a verb function as the subject of a sentence.
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| srikantbiswal - 8th November 2006 15:32
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Yes,
This is correct. Since it does not have a direct object, intransitive verb can not be used in passive voice.
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| Sunil - 17th April 2008 17:13
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| In some languages intransitive verbs can be used in passive voice. There are two kinds of passive voices. I do not know the terminology in English but in Sanskrit, they are knows as KarmVachya, where the obect has precednce, and BhavaVachya passive use of intransitive verbs such as "to sleep".
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