Take exercise
What is the meaning, translation and part of the speech of "take exercise"?
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"Take" is a transitive verb and "exercise" is the direct object of the transitive verb. " In (American English) this is considered old-fashioned, 19th century-type speech.
- "Take" is a transitive verb and "exercise" is the direct object of the transitive verb.
- " In (American English) this is considered old-fashioned, 19th century-type speech.
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"Take" is a transitive verb and "exercise" is the direct object of the transitive verb. For example:
"He takes exercise every morning at 5 AM."
"To take exercise" means "to exercise." In (American English) this is considered old-fashioned, 19th century-type speech.
0"Take exercise" is not fluent English. It should be "do exercise." If it were correct, acceptable, "take exercise" is made up of two words that are a verb and a noun respectively.
take = verb do = verb
exercise = noun
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