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intransitive verb
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intransitive verb

Verb that has no object, for example ‘she laughed’. A verb that is followed by an object is a transitive verb. Some verbs can be either transitive (‘it hailed frogs’) or intransitive (‘it hailed’).



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Loitering, like lagging and departing and a host of other intransitive verbs that we thoughtlessly abuse, needs a preposition.
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