From 100 per cent to the ancient origins of the “parting shot”, these are linguistic quirks that keep readers up at night.

Lauren Rothery’s “Television” finds an action star and two writers dazed by the changing rules of the entertainment industry.

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.” ...

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 ...

Many verbs in English can be used both transitively and intransitively. The object is often not needed when it is obvious what you are talking about. But it may need to be added to clarify what is ...

Abstract: A method exists for detecting ambiguous expressions in requirements specifications using a dictionary focused on transitive verbs and their objects. This dictionary is constructed by ...

Abstract: Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have attracted extensive attention in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image target detection. However, there is usually a lack of labeled data in ...

Focuses on understanding verbs, explaining their two main categories: action verbs and state of being verbs. It distinguishes between transitive and intransitive verbs based on whether they have a ...