A pilot can land an airplane and an airplane can land. 'Land' is both transitive and intransitive.
What about 'take off'? I looked it up but there is just one example as an intransitive verb.
'The plane took off from Heathrow.'
A pilot can (make a plane take off).
What is the one word to replace what's in bracket?
Thanks
Best Answer
According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, you can use take off about either a plane or a pilot: in other words, it is correct to say
So the sentence in your comment would work as
As you said, take off is definitely intransitive, so you cannot say something like
You would have to say