intransitively

To use lay intransitively to mean lie (it was laying on the floor) is also wrong.

And anyway, the verb works perfectly well intransitively.

Eat and read and many other verbs can be used either transitively or intransitively.

Intransitively, of course.

The ambiguity stems from the fact that 'move' is one of a class of verbs that can occur either transitively or intransitively.

In this action-oriented usage, you don't just sit there pulsing, throbbing, intransitively staying alive; you pulse the system, regularly pushing, annoying, demanding.

As complement of many other verbs used intransitively, including need and dare (when not used as modal-like verbs), want, expect, try, hope, agree, refuse, etc.

Verbs in Angos are ambitransitive; they can act transitively or intransitively depending on the presence of an object or prepositional phrase.

For example, the verb zinken (to sink) cannot be used transitively, nor the verb openen (to open) intransitively:

An accusative verb is a verb that can be used transitively or intransitively, with the subject of the transitive verb becoming the argument of the intransitive verb.

The verb settle is used transitively of the action of peopling a place, as in to settle a district, intransitively of the action of settling oneself, as in to settle in the colony.

Further, the transitive verbs watch, follow, and (more particularly) elbow are used intransitively, so that these rather threatening actions not only have a disembodied source, but can be interpreted as having either Titus or his whole surroundings as their target.

People sometimes mistakenly use the verb 'to lay' intransitively when they mean 'to lie,' for example *'The cat is laying in the sun' instead of, correctly, 'The cat is lying in the sun.'

Some of these can be used intransitively in either sense: "I'm cooking the pasta" is fairly synonymous with both "The pasta is cooking" (as an ergative verb) and "I'm cooking", although it obviously gives more information than either.

In English, most verbs can be used intransitively, but ordinarily this does not change the role of the subject; consider, for example, "He ate the soup" (transitive) and "He ate" (intransitive), where the only difference is that the latter does not specify what was eaten.

English has a number of ergative verbs: verbs which can be used either intransitively or transitively, where in the intransitive use it is the subject that is receiving the action, and in the transitive use the direct object is receiving the action while the subject is causing it.