Transitive verb and Intransitive verb
What is TRANSITIVE VERBS?
Ans. The action passes over from subject to object. Transitive verb are used with a direct object. They are action verbs that have an object to receive that action.
For example.
The cat killed the mouse.
' mouse' is the object of the (verb- killed).
How to find the object?
We can ask the question 'What' or 'Whom' to the verb.
In above example: killed whom? the mouse.
What is INTRANSITIVE VERBS?
Ans. The action does not pass over from subject to object. Intransitive verb are action verbs but they do not have an object receiving the action. They are used without direct object.
Change the voice is possible in case of sentences with transitive verbs.
The voice of a verb tells whether the subject of the sentence performs or receives the action.
Transitive verb |
Intransitive verb |
The students speak French. |
They speak well. |
We study grammar. |
We study hard. |
I stopped the car. |
The car stopped. |
I bake some cookies. |
I bake. |
I move the chair. |
I move. |
Ans. plays - Intransitive verb
Ans. painted - Transitive verb
Ans. sang - Transitive verb
Ans. flies - Intransitive verb
Ans. wrote - Transitive verb
Ans. vanished - Intransitive verb
Ans. copied - Transitive verb
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