Ian Fleming’s Doctor No Deconstructed – James Bond – 007 Intransitive Hero

By Mary Duffy From the examples that follow -culled from Ian Fleming’s novel Doctor No–you will realize that in all cases, Fleming uses an abundance of intransitive verbs, and many of them as sentence openers. In a novel where the hero is an action hero, this is understandable. By definition, ‘intransitive verbs’ express a doable [...]

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