Transitive vs Causative - What's the difference?
transitive | causative |
Making a (l) or passage.
* (rfdate) , The Poet :
Affected by (l) of signification.
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(grammar, of a verb) Taking an (l) or objects.
* (rfdate) , Orthodoxy :
(set theory, of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element x'' is related to ''y'' and ''y'' is related to ''z'', then ''x'' is necessarily related to ''z .
Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
Acting as a cause.
* Francis Bacon
Expressing a cause or reason; causal.
(linguistics) An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).
As adjectives the difference between transitive and causative
is that transitive is making a (l) or passage while causative is acting as a cause.As a noun causative is
(linguistics) an expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).transitive
English
Adjective
(-)- For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive , and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
- By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy.
- The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".
- Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.
- "Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation: if Alice is an ancestor of Bob, and Bob is an ancestor of Carol, then Alice is an ancestor of Carol.
Antonyms
* (l) * (l), (l)Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)See also
* (l) * (l)References
* ----causative
English
(wikipedia causative)Adjective
(-)- Causative in nature of a number of effects.
- The ablative is a causative case.