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Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

The document discusses transitive and intransitive verbs. Transitive verbs take an object to receive the action, while intransitive verbs do not take an object and complete the sentence on their own. Verbs of incomplete predication require a complement to fully describe the subject or object. A subjective complement describes the subject of an intransitive verb, while an objective complement describes the object of a transitive verb.

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Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

The document discusses transitive and intransitive verbs. Transitive verbs take an object to receive the action, while intransitive verbs do not take an object and complete the sentence on their own. Verbs of incomplete predication require a complement to fully describe the subject or object. A subjective complement describes the subject of an intransitive verb, while an objective complement describes the object of a transitive verb.

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Week 2 - Transitive and intransitive verbs

VERBS

Action verbs: denotes actions taking place physically or mentally. It you tells what a person or thing does.

TRANSITIVE VERBS INTRANSITIVE VERBS

Verb that takes an object to receive the action and complete the meaning of  Verb that has no object to receive
the sentence. the action. It completes a
(The object refers to a person or thing that is different or separate from the sentence and tells us something
subject. It may be a living or a non-living thing.) about the subject itself.
A transitive verb takes a direct object,  or a direct  object and an indirect object. (It has no answer to the
questions: "What? Whom?
OBJECTS

Direct object: The noun  or pronoun that receives the direct


action, or is directly affected by the action (living or non-
They refer to
living thing).
TWO UNLIKE
Answers to: "What? or Whom?" after the verb.
OR SEPARATE
THINGS OR
Indirect object: The noun or pronoun that is indirectly
affected by the action of a verb. It comes before the direct PERSONS,
object and answers to: "To whom? or For whom? -or they do not
describe each
who/what receives the direct object" .
It is a person or a living being, and it requires a direct object other
in the sentence.

VERBS OF INCOMPLETE PREDICATION

The verb that requires a word or group of words TO COMPLETE THE


PREDICATE, or what it says about its subject or object.
The word, or group of words that help the verb is the complement of the verb.
ROY  IS  A  GOOD  FRIEND
ROY: Subject 
IS: Intransitive verb/VIP   
A GOOD FRIEND: helps the verb complete the predicate or completes what
it says about the subject/COMP V

SUBJECTIVE COMPLEMENT OF THE VERB: when a complement describes the


subject of a verb. Intransitive verbs always take a subjective complement for it
has no object. (be, become, seem, appear: some of the verbs of incomplete
predication of intransitive verbs)
THE    DOLL    IS    BEAUTIFUL
THE DOLL: subject
IS: intransitive verb of incomplete predication
BEAUTIFUL: (describes the subject and helps the verb complete what it
says about the subject) subjective complement
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OBJECTIVE COMPLEMENT OF THE VERB: It describes the object of a transitive


verb. Transitive verbs of incomplete predication take objective complements.
(make, call, find, think: some transitive verbs that usually require a
complement)
THE    BOXER    KNOCKED    HIS  OPPONENT    SENSELESS
THE BOXER: subject
-the boxer knocked whom or what? - opponent
OPPONENT: direct object
SENSELESS: (describes the object and helps the verb to complete what it
says about the object) objective complement
KNOCKED: transitive verb of incomplete predication
The objective complement CANNOT BE SEPARATED FROM THE VERB.

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