english help?

Question

could someone please explain transitive and intransitive verbs because i really don't understand them!!

thankss

Answer 1

Transitive verbs are action verbs: run, walk, swim, jump, do, cry, play, sing, make, etc.

Intransive verbs are actionless: be and all its forms, have, etc.

Many verbs can be used either way, depending on context. Here's a website than can help explain it better:

http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/trnsintr.html

Best Wishes,

Sue

Answer 2

I can explain it in terms of sentence structure. Here goes:

An intransitive sentence has a noun phrase (NP or subject) plus a verb/predicate. The sentence has no direct object, in other words, the verb doesn't affect anything stated by the sentence. Here are some examples of intransitive sentences:
I jumped. *subject + predicate
Last night, I ran around the track. *subject + predicate + prepositional phrase (ignore this)

A transitive sentence is a sentence with a subject, predicate, and direct object. The predicate "acts on" the direct object. Here are some examples of transitive sentences.
Mary had a little lamb. *the lamb is what Mary had
I drank the water. *the water is what I drank

Hope this helps.....

Answer 3

First and foremost, a transitive verb is an action verb. Second, it requires a direct object to complete its meaning in the sentence. In other words, the action of the verb is transferred to the object directly.

An intransitive verb, on the other hand, cannot take a direct object.

Answer 4

a transitive verb requires a direct object at the end of the sentence.

Ex: The boy hit the girl.

to find out if it is a direct object use the verb to see if it did something to an object

The boy hit who?
The girl

A intransitive verb does not need a direct object.

Ex: The person exploded.

Answer 5

http://www.wordpower.ws/grammar/gramch11.html

Go to this site and learn it yourself.