Since we're talking about predicates, we figured we'd talk about transitivity, too. Transitivity is the fancy, technical word for how many objects a given verb has, which is usually zero to two.
If you strip away all the labels (aka words), which are really just arbitrary sound representations (whoa), you're left with actions. Pure and simple, verbs were a thing before humans decided to make written language. In the same way, so were direct and indirect objects.
Oh, language.
Keep clicking to learn more about transitive, intransitive, and ditransitive verbs.
Transitive Verbs
Transitive verbs are the ones with one or more objects. Sometimes, there's a distinction between having just a direct object (monotransitive) and having both a direct object and an indirect object...
Intransitive Verbs
An intransitive verb walks into a 7-11 with its friends, transitive verb and ditransitive verb. When the clerk isn't looking, the transitive verb takes a Bic lighter and the ditransitive verb takes...
Ditransitive Verbs
Ditransitive verbs are a type of transitive verb. If you're a geometry nut, a transitive verb is a rectangle and a ditransitive verb is a square in that a square is a rectangle but a rectangle isn'...