Transitive verbs can take a grammatical object. 'Stop' is a transitive verb, so you can say 'I stop the bus' ('the bus' being the object). Intransitive can't take a grammatical object. 'Cease' for ex… (View Post)

There's a niche market for them amongst Brian May guitar wannabes: he uses them as plectrums. (View Post)

Blimey. Sounds as if her murderous behaviour was something of a running joke amongst her colleagues. But the court heard that colleagues had suspicions about Letby well over a year before hospital bo… (View Post)

I wonder how long the Daily Mail will keep him on. Surely the idea was that he totally sticks it to Rishi on a weekly basis. Newts must be a terrible let-down. (View Post)

The point is that Bairstow gained no batting advantage by leaving his crease - for example, turning a delivery into a full toss - which is, I suppose, why the stumping law is there: to stop such an a… (View Post)