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Ljswave Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
What about your opinion?
I read this sentence below in a book on English Grammar.
#1- Brad married a famous singer.
(Verb Transitive )
#2- Mr. & Mrs.Johnson married off all their daughters.
(Verb Intransitive)
then I started to see whether marry in the #2 is Verb Intransitive or not.
Of course , I was finding married off in the dictionary but I couldn't in it.
Instead of it , I discovered the example to give me a hint about that structure in the part of "Verb Transitive" .
eg. Linda's father married her off to Bill
As I saw the example , It could remind me for the sturcture of #2.
Replaceing #2 like this,
#2- Mr. & Mrs.Johnson married all their daughters off ( to somebody- Skipping)
-> #2- Mr. & Mrs.Johnson married off all their daughters.
so , I think we should call married of #2 as Verb Transitive.
Are you with me or against me?
#1- Brad married a famous singer.
(Verb Transitive )
#2- Mr. & Mrs.Johnson married off all their daughters.
(Verb Intransitive)
then I started to see whether marry in the #2 is Verb Intransitive or not.
Of course , I was finding married off in the dictionary but I couldn't in it.
Instead of it , I discovered the example to give me a hint about that structure in the part of "Verb Transitive" .
eg. Linda's father married her off to Bill
As I saw the example , It could remind me for the sturcture of #2.
Replaceing #2 like this,
#2- Mr. & Mrs.Johnson married all their daughters off ( to somebody- Skipping)
-> #2- Mr. & Mrs.Johnson married off all their daughters.
so , I think we should call married of #2 as Verb Transitive.
Are you with me or against me?
Top answer
ljswave I think we should call married off #2 as Verb Transitive. Yes, we should. I don't know where the author of your English Grammar book got the idea that married off is intransitive, but that's not correct.
- ljswave I think we should call married off #2 as Verb Transitive.
- Yes, we should.
- I don't know where the author of your English Grammar book got the idea that married off is intransitive, but that's not correct.
- Maybe you need to get a better book!
- CJ
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ljswaveI think we should call married off #2 as Verb Transitive.Yes, we should. I don't know where the author of your English Grammar book got the idea that married off is intransitive, but that's not correct. Maybe you need to get a better book!
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