2007-03-18 23:20:15 · 10 answers · asked by VioletJ 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
No, but it is more common with one.
–verb (used without object)
9. to take a husband or wife; wed.
10. (of two or more foods, wines, etc.) to combine suitably or agreeably; blend: This wine and the strong cheese just don't marry.
2007-03-18 23:33:27 · answer #1 · answered by Jeannie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not a grammar expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I think that yes, it does need to have an object. Even if you take the alternative meaning of the verb (i.e. not as in getting married but meaning to put two things together) then you still need a subject and an object.
Anyone think anything different?
2007-03-18 23:27:55 · answer #2 · answered by GoldieMeg 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In most cases, yes. However, it would be possible to make a case for the contrary. I might make the following sentence.
Part of a vicar's role is to marry. (the object is in this case implicit).
However, any use of the verb 'marry' without the use of the object leaves the sentence ambiguous. Is the vicar in the above sentence supposed to marry a couple or his own wife?
2007-03-18 23:37:43 · answer #3 · answered by Shona L 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Verb marry is most commonly used as a transitive verb, which is a verb or verb construction that requires an object in order to be grammatical. Here is an example: "I married her" (I is substantive, married transitive verb and her is object)
However, in case it is intransitive verb, then there is no need for an object to which action is imposed by the verb. Example: "We married in our thirties". (WE is substantive, MARRIED intransitve verb and IN OUR THIRTIES adverbial
2007-03-18 23:58:59 · answer #4 · answered by Tarik D 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No. It is possible for you to marry someone, for a priest (or other officiating person) to marry a couple or for you, quite simply, to want to marry. In the last of these cases there is no object.
2007-03-19 01:53:27 · answer #5 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but it usually does. I think it's more usual to use 'get married' if you don't want an object.
2007-03-21 02:18:33 · answer #6 · answered by claude 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes yes, it is a transitive verb like 'vanquish' (which is always transitive). 'Win' is sometimes transitive.." I won the game."..sometimes not..I'm glad I won.
I married my wife in a chapel...tr.
2007-03-19 03:34:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so, though in modern usage it usually has, or "to get married" is used, but there is Shakespeare "But if thou marry hang me by the neck if horns that year miscarry..."
2007-03-18 23:32:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily. For instance, the sentence "The elderly spinster had declared on her twentieth birthday that she would never marry."
2007-03-18 23:43:11 · answer #9 · answered by champer 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, not always.
2007-03-19 01:38:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋