ACTIVE Verbs, are such as do not only signify doing, or acting; but have also nouns following them, to be the subject of the action or impression: thus, To love, to teach, are verbs active; because we can say, To love a thing, to teach a man. Neuter verbs also denote an action, but are distinguished from active verbs, in that they cannot have a noun following them: such are, To sleep, to go, &c.—Some grammarians, however, make three kinds of active verbs: the transitive, where the action passes into a subject different from the agent; reflected, where the action returns upon the agent; and reciprocal, where the action turns mutually upon the two agents who produced it.