10 transitive and intransitive sentences

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Transitive Verbs

Transitive verbs are determined by the relation of the verb to the object. With a simple definition, verbs that have or can take an object are transitive. ” If we can get an answer when we ask “what, who, what, who? questions, that verb is transitive. In fact, these questions are aimed at finding the r indefinite object in the sentence.

I read a book.

(The verb ‘read’ in this example is a transitive verb because the action of ‘read’ can be done to something. Like reading a newspaper, a book, a magazine.)

They are sleeping.

(The verb in this example is ‘sleep’, and it is an intransitive verb because the verb ‘sleep’ cannot be done to something, so there is no use in sleeping something or someone.)

Intransitive Verbs

Intransitive verbs are verbs that do not require an object to be used as a subject. In other words, there is no object in these statements, or it cannot be found in any manner. For example, the following sentence has an intransitive verb:

“I walked in the park.”

As can be seen, when the sentence above is broken down into its parts, no object can be identified in any way.