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Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Exercise

The document discusses transitive and intransitive verbs, providing examples of sentences with verbs used either transitively or intransitively. It explains that a transitive verb takes an object, while an intransitive verb does not, and most verbs can be used in both ways. The examples are then answered by labeling each verb as transitive or intransitive, with explanations provided.

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Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Exercise

The document discusses transitive and intransitive verbs, providing examples of sentences with verbs used either transitively or intransitively. It explains that a transitive verb takes an object, while an intransitive verb does not, and most verbs can be used in both ways. The examples are then answered by labeling each verb as transitive or intransitive, with explanations provided.

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Transitive and intransitive verbs exercise

State whether the verbs in the following sentences are used transitively or
intransitively.

1. Heat expands metals.

2. Metals expand on heating.

3. The driver stopped the car.

4. The car stopped abruptly.

5. You must speak the truth.

6. You must speak loudly.

7. The boy is flying the kite.

8. The birds are flying in the sky.

9. The rider fell off the horse and broke his arm.

10. The woodcutter felled a huge tree.

11. The explosion sank the ship.

12. The ship sank suddenly.

Answers

1. Transitive verb – expands ( object – metals)

2. Intransitive verb – expand

3. Transitive verb – stopped (object – car)

4. Intransitive verb – stopped

5. Transitive verb – speak (object – truth)

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Transitive and intransitive verbs exercise

6. Intransitive verb – speak

7. Transitive verb – is flying (object – kite)

8. Intransitive verb – are flying

9. Intransitive verb – fell off

10. Transitive verb – felled (object – tree)

11. Transitive verb – sank (object – ship)

12. Intransitive verb – sank

Notes

A transitive verb has an object. An intransitive verb does not have an object. Note that most
verbs can be used both transitively and intransitively.

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