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property of verbs that relates to whether a verb can take direct objects and how many such objects a verb can take

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Transitivity is a linguistics property that relates to whether a verb, participle, or gerund denotes a transitive object. It is closely related to valency, which considers other arguments in addition to transitive objects.

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