AS we should all know by now, intransitive verbs are handicapped by their inability to take a direct object. Another way of ...

The helping verbs am, is, are help the main verb show action that happens in the present. So that's happening right now i can use am, is and are to help the main verb.

AS we should all know by now, intransitive verbs are handicapped by their inability to take a direct object. Another way of saying this is that a subject cannot perform the action of intransitive ...

AS we took up in this column last week, intransitive verbs like 'gone' and 'disappear' are of the kind that can't pass on their action to a direct object. This is why sentence constructions like 'The ...