Valency

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Avalent impersonal
It rains
monovalent/monadic intransitive
she studies
Divalent/dyadic transitive
she throws the book
trivalent/triadic ditransitive A
she gives him a book
quadrivalent tritransitive
  1. impersonal (= avalent) it rains ,
  2. intransitive (monovalent/monadic) she sleeps
  3. transitive (divalent/dyadic) she kicks the ball
  4. ditransitive (trivalent/triadic) she gave him a book
  5. tritransitive (quadrivalent/quadradic) I bet her a dollar on a horse