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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