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• Leerjaar 5

Today:

• Rectification on transitive/intransitive verbs.
  
• OWS 52,53 (p.138 - 141)
  

Transitive verbs are not just verbs that can take an object; they demand objects. Without an object to affect, the sentence that a transitive verb inhabits will not seem complete.

Example: Please bring coffee.

In this sentence, the verb bring is transitive; its object is coffee, the thing that is being brought. Without an object of some kind, this verb cannot function.

Please bring.

Bring what, or who? The question begs itself because the meaning of bring demands it.

Here are some more examples of transitive verbs and their objects.

The girls carry water to their village.

Juan threw the ball.

• Could you phone the neighbors?
• I caught a cold.
• She loves rainbows.
• Lila conveyed the message.
  

An intransitive verb is the opposite of a transitive verb: it does not require an object to act upon.

• They jumped.
  
• The dog ran.
  
• She sang.
  
• A light was shining.
  

None of these verbs require an object for the sentence to make sense, and all of them can end a sentence. Some imperative forms of verbs can even make comprehensible one-word sentences. Example: Run! Sing!

A number of English verbs can only be intransitive; that is, they will never make sense paired with an object. Two examples of intransitive-only verbs are arrive and die. You can’t arrive something, and you certainly can’t die something; it is impossible for an object to follow these verbs.

Many verbs can be classified as both transitive and intransitive depending on how they are used in a sentence.

He runs along the beach every morning (NO DO NEEDED) --> intransitive

He runs a small grocery (DO) store --> transitive 

Transitive of intransitive?

He promised he'd be at home, but he was out when I called (1)

1. Transitive
2. Intransitive

I was so annoyed that I called (2) him a very rude name.

1. Transitive
2. Intransitive

Tarek runs (1) everyday before he goes to work

1. Transitive
2. Intransitive

He works in London where he runs (2) a small IT company

1. Transitive
2. Intransitive