Philosophy 1370A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Intransitive Verb, Steven Pinker, Preposition And Postposition
31 Mar 2019
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Tom broke the glass pinker wants to relate this sentence to tom caused the glass to break. Must have been a bad break break is functioning as a noun because it has a a in front. The glass broke glass is the subject because it"s in front of the verb called a intransitive verb because there is nothing after the verb and the subject is before the verb. Intransitive verb: a verb that doesn"t have a noun after it. Transitive verb: a verb with a noun phrase after. If tom caused the glass to break he must of done something that caused the glass to break. So if tom drops the glass on the floor and the glass breaks were going to say tom broke the glass because he dropped it which caused the glass to break. Pinker wants you to understand there are lots of verbs that can be transitive or intransitive.
