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admin on September 23rd, 2009
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 action. And [...]
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