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Ruby's array.sum feels more natural because the array is the subject and sum is an intransitive verb.

As an intransitive verb, the subject is the person feeling enthusiasm.

Transitive or intransitive verbs don't occur only in English: virtually every human language has something like them.

The transitive use, as by the poster you responded to, is distinct, and unambiguously a different use than the intransitive use.

Also, your title tries a call to action, that is, the first Help is a intransitive verb rather than a noun.

As such I am enthused would not be an intransitive verb, but either a nominal predicate or a passive verbal predicate.

It also provides a convenient rationalization of the older intransitive use as a specialization of the transitive use where the question for which an answer is demanded is that of the support for the premise under discussion, so that the transitive use turns the intransitive use from an idiom that is detached from the meanings of the words in the language outside of the idiom to one connected to it in a clear way.

But in larger numbers of games you'd still expect to see a bigger difference between better teams and not so good teams, and the article argues the difference is not so big (17% intransitive tuples vs 25% in random pairs).

If it weren't for that book I would have never understood why there are so many exceptions with verbs regarding the whole intransitive and transitive thing.

Apparently, using the word trespass as a intransitive verb is correct (albeit archaic) and was used as such in the New Testament, as in forgive those who trespass against us.

>Appeal is intransitive nowadays (except in America), so appeal against decisions.

Accepting the transitive use, which is widely established and whose meaning is immediately clear to anyone who encounters it and which is completely unambiguously differentiated from the intransitive use, does nothing but make life better for everyone.

There is a whole category of verbs called "labile verbs" where the subject of the intransitive form becomes the object of the transitive form: * Intransitive: The bell rang.

"Screwy" in this context means the sort of intransitive situations referred to in the parent of my last comment.

But it could go either way, as "queue" technically can act as either a transitive or an intransitive verb.

Just a tip: the use of "begs the question" to which you refer is always intransitive.