| Like most English prepositions, near can be used either transitively or intransitively. |
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| In these examples, the meaning of the verb does not change whether it is used transitively or intransitively. |
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| Furthermore, the verbs are usually transitive, though occasionally they are used intransitively with a preposition like for, of, or about introducing the object. |
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| And anyway, the verb works perfectly well intransitively. |
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| The verb hak in Thai belongs to the class of verbs which can be used either transitively or intransitively. |
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| Whereas a creature can be both intransitively conscious and transitively conscious of something, a mental state can only be intransitively conscious. |
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| This perspective is evident in the very assumption that affection cannot act intransitively, that a feeling always requires an object. |
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| One of the primary questions which has occupied students of the Great Famine since the event itself is whether the verb 'starve' should be used transitively or intransitively. |
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