Sunday, 6 October 2013
BOTH TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE VERBS
We can exemplify those verbs like this :
1.cook:
*I'm plannig to cook soup and meatballs for our guests.
*Where did you learn to cook cake?
This verb is used as transitive in those sentences.
*You can wash the dishes until chips cooks.
*While the pasta is cooking, prepare the sauce.
This verb is used as intransitive in those sentences.
2.feel:
*Whenever it rains, I try to feel the rain on my skin.
*I feel that everything's going to be alright.
This verb is used as transitive in those sentences.
*It feels like I'm flying.
*You'll feel better after a goog night's sleep.
This verb is used as intransitive in those sentenes.
3.change:
*You can start to change your life for changing the world.
*With a wave of her magic wand, she changed the froy into a handsome prince.
This verb is used as transitive in those sentences.
*I wish he would change a little.
*Her life changed completely when she won the lottery.
This verb is used as intransitive in those sentences.
**The purple-coloured ones are objects of transitive verbs.
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