When a sentence uses a transitive verb to describe an action, it’s necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it: “The woman spurned her suitor last week.” “Her suitor found a ...

Normally there is no change in meaning if we switch from one to the other. In the examples you quote, Ivo, the meaning is exactly the same and we can choose either formulation irrespective of the ...

To recall, intransitive verbs are handicapped by their inability to take a direct object. Another way of saying this is that ...

Young children often fail to generalize a novel verb based on sameness of action since they have difficulty focusing on the relational similarity across events while at the same time ignoring the ...