A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
A dangling modifier walks into a bar. After finishing a drink, the bartender asks it to leave.
A question mark walks into a bar?
Two quotation marks “walk into” a bar.
A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to drink.
The bar was walked into by the passive voice.
Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They drink. They leave.
The past, present, and future walk into a bar. It was tense.
Hang on a minute, 'to drink' isn't an intransitive verb. But on this one occasion I won't let perfect grammar get in the way of a good story!
ReplyDeleteIt is not an inevitably intransitive verb - it can take a direct object. But it is an intransitive verb in the example above - it has no direct object.
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