Talk:drive
"Drive" as in "drive to work" is not intransitive. You can ado-lessly say "I'm driven to work every morning by the bus driver."
The computer sense of the noun drive (noun section #4) is no longer purely mechanical (at least no more so than calling a CPU or a modem a mechanical device). A "flash drive" is solid state, a "network drive" is completely ambiguous in terms of the technology or attachment in use. Speed8ump from 207.235.66.3 23:35, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
There are two dialectal pasttense forms— ✳driv (surviving in the southern U.S. and New England) and ✳druv (occurring mostly in Kentucky). --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:01, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
vicarious use[edit]
i've heard at least four different young children tell me they're driving someplace when they're obviously referring to their parents driving them. i wonder if it's just because the construction *I'm riding to Worcester, etc seems ungrammatical, even though it is perfectly grammatical, and to use passive voice seems clumsy.
does this merit a specific new sense just for the vicarious use, or should we just assume it's metonymy or some other such phenomenon? —Soap— 14:41, 16 June 2021 (UTC)