Intransitive Sentence Examples

An active or causal verb requires before it the instrumental instead of the nominative case, which goes only before a neuter or intransitive verb.

Thus intransitive bases seem to have begun only with soft consonants, and it is doubtful whether the parent tongue possessed hard consonants at all; while transitive bases were formed by hardening of the initial consonants and at the same time pronouncing the words in a higher tone, and these two latter changes are supposed to have been indicated by a prefix to the base-word.

Experiment 2 used potentially intransitive verbs in sentences like The boat floated down the river (and) sank.

And then 3 vi (verb intransitive) meaning verbs which do not take a direct object.

In the sentence, The horse runs fast there is no object at all, so run is an intransitive verb.

You will find that some verbs can be either transitive or intransitive depending on the context of their sentence.