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I'm not an expert on grammar or linguistics, but here are my thoughts as an ordinary native user of English. I hope I got all the grammatical terminology correct! I think that all verbs -- transitive or intransitive -- are able to form present perfect sentences: "He has...

"Retire", when it is used to describe persons, it is, in its origin, an intransitive verb to mean "draw (oneself) away from the contact with other people", although it has been used as a transitive verb since ME days in the case it is used to talk about things. It is only in 18th century people...

CalifJim wrote: There is no such thing as a transitive sentence. Verbs are transitive or intransitive, not sentences. "to train" is a transitive verb. As such, it can be used both in active and in passive sentences. The sample sentence illustrates a transitive verb used in a passive sentence...