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Does the following sentence make sense? "I marry." It's a transitive verb.

• fuzztester 2y ago
  There's also "I walk", "I eat", "I run", and many more like those.
• thaumasiotes 2y ago
  That's not an issue of the verb being obligatorily transitive, since it isn't. You really should look at some usage examples; this isn't a difficult or tricky question. The problem in your sentence is that the plain form of a verb is used for states, not activities, and marrying is an activity. "I am marrying today" is just as intransitive, but without the artificially induced grammatical error.
  • bregma 2y ago
    "I am marrying today." That's not a valid sentence, unless the person you are to wed is named "Today". Such is stuff as Abbott and Costello cashed in on. Of course, taken in context there may be implied antecedents in spoken dialog. Spoken dialog is often incomplete and rife with implied antecedents and frequently does not follow the rules of grammer. Sentence fragments and one-word sentences can about because of that.
    • throawayjune 2y ago
      It is valid and maybe easier to see with a comma. “I am marrying, today.” “Today, I will be marrying.” It is valid in the context of “i will be engaging in marriage, today (“today, i am entering into a covenant of marriage”)” but it wouldn’t be something that would be heard very often. it’s a more archaic usage.
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