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Sorry if this is a little late, and sorry if there have been other
replies. I'm on digest, so I can't tell what's been posted yet today.
This is in response to:
>From: Karen Field <kfield -at- STELLCOM -dot- com>
A listmember wrote: "You can configure an alarm to trigger when a metric
fails."
Webster's was a little vague on this point: Isn't "trigger" a transitive
verb?
Just wondering...
>Karen Field
And I respond with...
Yes, I looked it up in my American Heritage Dictionary and it said tr.
v., which I assume means transitive verb.
However, I then tried to find more information on "transitive verbs"
in three other books I have, and I could not find any information.
So, I'm not clear what the problem is with it being a transitive verb.
