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XilenceCE Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Is 'wait' in the sentence intransitive?

'I can't wait to turn on the TV this evening and watch it unfold.'

  

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' Yes, it is. (Who folded up the TV set? )

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  • (Who folded up the TV set?
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XilenceCE

'I can't wait to turn on the TV this evening and watch it unfold.'

Yes, it is.

(Who folded up the TV set?

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I can't wait [to turn on the TV this evening and watch it unfold.]

Yes, as Rover_KE says, it is intransitive.

"Wait" is a catenative verb, and this is a catenative construction where the bracketed subordinate infinitival clause to turn on the TV ... is catenative complement of "wait".

Note that only in a small handful

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