Transition to transitives

Exploring verbs, intransitive and transitive, and the transition of the former to the latter, and the formation of transitive verbs.

VERBS can be categorised as intransitive and transitive. Intransitive is said “of a verb (or sense or use of a verb) not taking a direct object, e.g. look in look at the sky”; and transitive is said “of a verb (or sense or use of a verb) able to take a direct object (expressed or implied), e.g. saw in he saw the donkey” (Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 2004).