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Sinbadfromtheboard Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

transitive or intransitive verb

Would you consider "walked" a transitive verb or intransitive verb ?

I can say, "Bob walked the plank." or I can say, "Bob walked around the corner."

Sentence one requires a direct object, while sentence two does not.
  

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It's both. Look here. com/dictionary/walk Clive

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Clearly, it can be used in both ways. The transitive sense is rarely used; mainly in expressions such as "walking the beat" (for a policeman) and "walking the plank" (not widely used nowadays :-)
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"Bob walked around the corner."

In my opinion, walked is an intransitive verb in this sentence and the prepositional phrase around the corner function as an adverb here.
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KrisBlueNZClearly, it can be used in both ways. The transitive sense is rarely used; mainly in expressions such as "walking the beat" (for a policeman) and "walking the plank" (not widely used nowadays :-)
In 'walk the plank' and 'walk the beat', the words 'plank' and 'beat' are no more the direct objects of 'walk'' than 'mile' is the direct object of 'run' in
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I can see how mile in "run a mile" is not the direct object of run, but "walk the plank" and "walk the line" seem to be a bit different. You could say they are shortened versions of "walk along the plank" and "walk along the line", where "walk along" is a transitive verb phrase.

So when "walk along" (transitive) is abbreviated to just "walk", does that make "wa
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Walk -verb
along -preposition.

He walked over/under/along/past the plank. Walkis intransitive.
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Did you look up the Merriam-Webster article linked by Clive earlier in the thread?
I can't see how walk in "walk the dog" could possibly be intransitive.
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