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Is the sentence "Blood flows my veins" correct?

English Language & Usage Asked by Dušan on February 10, 2021

I know you can say "Blood flows through my veins" but is my example also correct?

One Answer

Flow can be a transitive verb

1: to cause to flow

  • flowing oil over the swamp to kill mosquito larvae

2: to discharge in a flow

  • The new oil well flowed 100 barrels a day.

(Merriam-Webster)

So, we could force the meaning and say that someone/something flows blood. Look at this title of video on YouTube:

The Fountain that Flowed Blood and Water

(religious use)

Or, if you follow the second definition and example, you would need to have this construction: flow + quantity (where the quantity would be the object):

flow rivers of blood

Ex: The adversary flowed rivers of blood in the mainland. (I made this up, as the instances found online were too disturbing to paste here).

My veins cannot be the object of the verb "flows".

Edit: I have found other transitive uses of flow not related to oil:

Cryptography is the background of protecting the flowed information between various communicated parties. (Scholar Works) (meaning that various communicated parties flowed information among themselves)

or

The conference brochure used a image of a branded micro-chip embedded within a circuit board down which flowed information in the form of lights. (Rogue Robot)

Answered by fev on February 10, 2021

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