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Tenjing Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

help me with past participles adjectives.

Can all the transitive past participles can be used as adjectives,mostly before nouns.like
Broken glass,torn book.

But some intransitive past participles can also be used as adjectives right? ?like a grown up man.
  

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Since almost all verbs in English can be either transitive or intransitive, this distinction is not relevant. " And so forth.

— Anonymous

  • Since almost all verbs in English can be either transitive or intransitive, this distinction is not relevant.
  • " And so forth.
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Since almost all verbs in English can be either transitive or intransitive, this distinction is not relevant. For example, break is transitive in "He broke the record." and intransitive in "He broke quickly to the left." So an adjectival past participle of break could be: "It is a broken record." or "His broken stride enabled him to dodge the ball."

Tear is transitive in "He tore the
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What I think about transitive and intransitive verbs is that some verbs are always transitive whether you use it with objecs or not like eat,buy,take ;some verbs are always intransitive, you can't use objects at all ;some verbs are both transitive and intransitive, if you use with objects it is transitive Anne if you use it without objects it is intransitive, verbs such as break,grow etc.this is
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tenjing verbs are always transitive whether you use it with objecs or not like eat
No, 'eat' is both. But of course, some verbs are transitive, some are intransitive, and some can be either.
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What I think about transitive and intransitive verbs is that some verbs are always transitive whether you use it with objecs or not like eat,buy,take ;some verbs are always intransitive, you can't use objects at all ;some verbs are both transitive and intransitive, if you use with objects it is transitive Anne if you use it without objects it is intransitive, verbs such as break,grow etc.this is
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