Transitive?

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HiI think the verb proved her is intransitive. I think so as I do not see prove as an action verb.   Am I correct?The information proved false.

Cool Breeze · Accepted Answer

It's certainly intransitive in the grammatical thinking I am used to.

CB

Vsuresh · Answer

Thank you Cool Breeze

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vsureshHi
I think the verb proved her is intransitive. I think so as I do not see prove as an action verb. Am I correct?
The information proved false.

Hi,

I disagree. Prove is mostly a transitive verb, as in the sentence 'Lucy clearly proved her point yesterday,

and thus won the argument'. Also, you can consider the following sentence: 'That proves she was right'.

Regards

Cool Breeze · Answer

Regards
vsureshHiI think the verb proved her is intransitive. I think so as I do not see prove as an action verb. Am I correct?The information proved false.
Hi,
I disagree. Prove is mostly a transitive verb, as in the sentence 'Lucy clearly proved her point yesterday,
and thus won the argument'. Also, you can consider the following sentence: 'That proves she was right'.

Regards

Vsuresh didn't ask how "to prove" is mostly used. He was interested in it in a specific sentence. False is an adjective in the sentence: The information proved false. An adjective on its own cannot act as an object and consequently proved is intransitive in the sentence. American grammarians seem to agree on this with traditional European linguists:

prove, v.i.
10. to turn out: The experiment proved to be successful.

(RHUD) (v.i. stands for "verb intransitive")

If false were to be considered a noun in vsuresh's sentence, it would take a plural s in sentences like this: The accusations proved falses. - Unless, of course, you consider false an uncountable noun.

CB

Regards · Answer

Cool Breeze
Regards
vsureshHiI think the verb proved her is intransitive. I think so as I do not see prove as an action verb. Am I correct?The information proved false.
Hi,I disagree. Prove is mostly a transitive verb, as in the sentence 'Lucy clearly proved her point yesterday, and thus won the argument'. Also, you can consider the following sentence: 'That proves she was right'. Regards
Vsuresh didn't ask how "to prove" is mostly used. He was interested in it in a specific sentence. False is an adjective in the sentence: The information proved false. An adjective on its own cannot act as an object and consequently proved is intransitive in the sentence.

Hi,

He wrote that proved her was intransitive, and I had thought he meant that prove in general was intransitive.

Now I understand that he meant proved here.

Anyway, in his sentence proved indeed appeared to function as an intransitive verb, but is actually

a linking verb.

Regards

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