transitive
Transitivity involves a relationship between a subject and an object.
Transitivity analysis can help you analyze ideologies.
It enables her to be a victim, just by the transitivity choices that she makes in writing the passage.

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Linguistics: verb forms, tenses & types of verbs
accusative
art
bare infinitive
bent
continuous
copula
finite
gerund
modality
non-finite
non-progressive
passive
passivization
perfective
present participle
subjunctive
the active voice
the future perfect
the past continuous
the past tense

Examples of transitivity

transitivity
Pathbreaking verbs in syntactic development and the question of prototypical transitivity.
We now restate and prove the elimination of transitivity theorem with some estimates.
Without transitivity, the three rules must be merged into a single one that takes width, depth, and permutation into account all at once.
They showed that such maps have certain transitivity properties that are preserved under perturbations.
Transitivity and composition take the same arguments, but in a different order.
From most to least important, these are : (1) pastness of event ; (2) clear end point ; (3) reenactment potential ; (4) transitivity, and (5) agentivity.
It is then sometimes worthwhile using a slightly different argument based on maximal transitivity components [8].
We relate these classifications to other properties of cellular automata such as topological transitivity, surjectivity and openness.
His current focus is on transitivity, the good, moral ideals and practical reasoning.
It is possible that this use of transitivity could be eliminated by considering the arguments in the basins of attraction of the different ergodic components.
Note that, when considering an entity-node in the graph, both direct and indirect relations can exist, since transitivity is permitted.
As we will see, for flows on the torus of the type we are considering, metric transitivity and topological transitivity are equivalent.
The value of this last pairing can be rewritten according to a general transitivity property [31, (4.1)].
As a consequence they obeyed a novel verb's experimentally assigned transitivity much more closely when it was introduced as transitive.
Many other normative principles, such as transitivity, independence, and descriptive or procedural invariance, fit this definition, but others do not.
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