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Add new text describing transitive and intransitive verbs
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jmccrae committed Oct 16, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -72,6 +72,11 @@ substituted, e.g., "a happy life"/"a felicitous outcome". This does not mean
that they can be substituted in every sense, e.g., "happy to help" but not
*"felicitous to help".

For verbs, two verbs are distinct if they differ in the subject, but not if the
direct object or any other argument can be substituted with a quantifier such as
"something" or "someone". For example, "to eat" and "to eat something" are not
distinct senses. However, "to change" and "to change something" are distinct senses
as the subject has a different semantic role.

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