Intransitive
What is an intransitive verb?
What is a verb with no receiver of its action.
What is a transitive verb?
What is a verb whose action TRANSfers to a direct object.
What is a direct object?
What is a person/people or things.
Find the intransitive verb in the following sentence:
Her family farmed.
What is farmed.
Find the transitive verb in the following sentence and state the direct object:
But he needed a job.
What is needed and the direct object is job.
Read the sentence, determine the verb, then tell whether it is transitive or intransitive. If it is transitive, tell me the direct object.
I saw a yellow-bellied sapsucker in a tree on my first day of camping.
What is saw and it is transitive. The direct object is sapsucker.
Find the intransitive verb in the following sentence:
Later the family moved from the woods to the prairies farther west.
What is moved.
Find the transitive verb in the following sentence and the direct object:
Later, some states paid him for his invention.
What is paid and the direct object is him.
Read the sentence, determine the verb, then tell whether it is transitive or intransitive. If it is transitive, tell me the direct object.
The class sang together.
What is sang and intransitive.
Find the intransitive noun in the following sentence:
Inside the crypt lay the body of a king.
What is lay.
Find the transitive verb in the following sentence and the direct object:
The pyramid honored the gods of the Mayas -- the sun, the moon, and the rain.
What is honored and the direct object is gods.
Read the sentence, determine the verb, then tell whether it is transitive or intransitive. If it is transitive, tell me the direct object.
The marshmallows burned quickly over the campfire.
What is burned and intransitive.
Find the intransitive verb in the following sentence:
Scrooge goes to past, present, and future time.
What is goes.
Find the transitive verb in the following sentence and the direct object:
According to the Mayas, the gods needed blood for survival.
What is needed and the direct object is blood.
Read the sentence, determine the verb, then tell whether it is transitive or intransitive. If it is transitive, tell me the direct object.
We played computer games inside the cabin.
What is played and transitive. The direct object is games.