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Discussion Groups / English Usage / November 2006"We do not torture"
This may well have been answered already, but can anyone tell me whether "torture" is frequently used as an intransitive verb in America? I had never come across this before Mr. Bush's famous claim. barkerpl...@hotmail.com wrote: > This may well have been answered already, but can anyone tell me > whether "torture" is frequently used as an intransitive verb in > America? I had never come across this before Mr. Bush's famous claim. Can be parsed as: "We do not [practice] torture" or "We do not torture [people]". > This may well have been answered already, but can anyone tell me > whether "torture" is frequently used as an intransitive verb in > America? I had never come across this before Mr. Bush's famous claim. It's not, but that strikes me as a normal "absolute" use of a transitive verb.  SignatureJerry Friedman |
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