{"id":71737,"date":"2019-08-23T11:52:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T11:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71737"},"modified":"2019-08-23T11:52:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T11:52:54","slug":"ergative-verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/ergative-verb\/","title":{"rendered":"Ergative Verb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A verb which can be either transitive or intransitive is called an ergative verb. English has many ergative verbs.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are: sink, ring, boil, speak, explode, collapse, dissolve etc.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The explosion sank the ship. (transitive)<br \/>\n\u2022 The ship sank rapidly. (intransitive)<br \/>\n\u2022 The driver stopped the train. (transitive)<br \/>\n\u2022 The train stopped suddenly. (intransitive)<br \/>\n\u2022 Ring the bell. (transitive)<br \/>\n\u2022 The bell rang loudly. (intransitive)<br \/>\n\u2022 The sun melted the ice. (transitive)<br \/>\n\u2022 The ice melted. (intransitive)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A verb which can be either transitive or intransitive is called an ergative verb. English has many ergative verbs. Examples are: sink, ring, boil, speak, explode, collapse, dissolve etc. \u2022 The explosion sank the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[818,819,821,820,770],"class_list":["post-71737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-ergative-verb","tag-ergative-verbs","tag-intransitive-verbs","tag-transitive-verbs","tag-verb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71738,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71737\/revisions\/71738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}