By the Oxford dictionary, 'know' is a intransitive or transitive verb in "have information" meaning. Example:
I do not know how many years of life are before me.
Is the verb 'know' transitive here? I think that 'how'-based subordinate is a prepositional object. How to correctly distinguish transitive and intransitive verbs without vocabulary?
Best Answer
"To know" is not a Dynamic verb. It is a stative verb. In stative verbs, it is a linking or a copulative verb. So, it does not need an object. Although, there is incomplete-predication, so it will take complement not an object to complete the predication.