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Identify All The Verbs and Say If They Are Transitive (What Type of Transitive) or Intransitive
Identify All The Verbs and Say If They Are Transitive (What Type of Transitive) or Intransitive
1. Identify all the verbs and say if they are transitive (what type of transitive) or intransitive
Do you want any help? No, thanks. I can manage perfectly well on my own.
- want – transitive | monotransitive
- manage – intransitive
He had been managing the business for 6 years before it made a profit.
- managing – transitive | transitive + PP
- made – transitive | monotransitive
They haven’t raised the standard of living much, but I still support the government.
- raised – transitive | monotransitive
- support – transitive | monotransitive
I found it difficult.
- found – transitive | complex transitive
Call me a taxi.
- call – transitive | ditransitive
2. Decide upon the function of the words (subject, predicate, object, adverbial, adjunct, subject complement, object
complement, conjunctions)
I’d relied on knowledge, imagination, observation and visual memory before I found cheating is easier.
- I – subject
- had relied – predicate
- on knowledge, imagination, observation and visual memory – direct object
- before – conjuction
- I – subject
- found - predicate
- cheating is easier – direct object + object complement
However, children who were born after 2000 wouldn’t like what we had back then.
- however – sentence adjunct
- children who were born after 2000 – subject
- wouldn’t like – predicate
- what we had back then – direct object
All in all, the girl who was just here is a bit prettier so I gave her your number.
- all in all – sentence adjunct
- the girl who was just here - subject
- is – copula
- a bit prettier – subject complement
- so - conjuction
- I – subject
- gave – predicate
- her – indirect object
- your number – direct object
Mary was leaning over because she could see me better that way for she was pretty much interested in me.
- Marry – subject
- was leaning – predicate
- over – adverbial
- because – conjuction
- she – subject
- could see – predicate
- me – direct object
- better that way – adverbial
- for – conjuction
- she – subject
- was – copula
- pretty much interested in me – subject complement
All the well-paid jobs are gone so we need another plan after this is over.
- all the well-paid jobs – subject
- are – copula
- gone – subject complement
- so – conjuction
- we – subject
- need – predicate
- another plan – direct object
- after this is over - adverbial