If you mean verbs that take only one thing as a direct object, I read that "shrug" is such a verb. But my son claims that you can shrug your eyebrows. One might compare that, superciliously, to putting one's ears akimbo. Joe Fineman

If you mean verbs that take only one thing as a direct object, I read that "shrug" is such a verb. But my son claims that you can shrug your eyebrows. When we discussed this back in 2000, I noted that Tarzan "shrugged his head

"Suborn" perjury. Can you suborn anything else? "Utter" a worthless check. I know you can utter a word. But "utter" ... know that there are other verbs that are used in only one situation but I can't think of them

An Tue, 27 Jan 2004 07:50:29 +0800, sgrìobh Robert Bannister (Email Removed): I don't know other IE languages that can have a prep. + infin. - maybe the Scandinavian languages and other Romance ones. Perhaps speakers of those could indicate

verb: were subject: children the very young elementary school: all modfiers to the subject on slanted lines underneath misbehaving: gerund acting as direct object, during...performance: prepositional phrase modifying were

But there *is* a direct object (= accusative) in every sentence. My recollection, based on high-school German, is that the accusative case is used both for direct objects and for the objects of many prepositions, but that the objects of some

Didn't you notice or understand what I meant by "(pronoun/a+noun)"? That's the direct object. Alles klar? Jetzt ja. Danke. Sorry for butting in. No problem, Gerd. My shorthand way of indicating the direct object was perhaps too

Didn't you notice or understand what I meant by "(pronoun/a+noun)"? That's the direct object. Alles klar? Jetzt ja. Danke. Sorry for butting in. Gerd

(Restored important: {a = article}) None of these examples is German. "Ausschimpfen" is transitive. You cannot use it without a direct object. But there *is* a direct object (= accusative) in every sentence. Didn't you notice or

None of these examples is German. "Ausschimpfen" is transitive. You cannot use it without a direct object. Mit Punkten ausgestandungen? Vas für ein Editor sind Sie? Unintelligible. Germans use the "European" way of punctuation,