Is ‘go’ used as a transitive verb?
In the novel ‘hands’, there appears a sentence.
’he could see the public highway along which went a wagon filled with berry pickers~
The underlined part is an example of inversion? Or is it ‘go’ used as a transitive verb?
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It's an inversion of ' ’ H e could see the public highway , along which a wagon went, filled with berry pickers '.
- It's an inversion of ' ’ H e could see the public highway , along which a wagon went, filled with berry pickers '.
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It's an inversion of '’He could see the public highway, along which a wagon went, filled with berry pickers'.
0air banana 338Or is it ‘go’ used as a transitive verb?
No. It has no object.
CB
0air banana 338Is ‘go’ used as a transitive verb?
Not in your example, as already explained above, but it can be.
Among the possible definitions are "tolerate; put up with" (I just can't go all this noise!) and "traverse; travel through or along" (We stopped after we had gone the length of the street.)
CJ
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