Pengertian Transitive dan Intransitive Verb

Transitive verb adalah kata kerja yang diikuti direct object untuk menerima aksi dari
subject. Sebaliknya, Intransitive verb adalah kata kerja yang tidak diikuti oleh direct object
sebagai penerima aksi.

Lebih Dalam
Jawaban dari pertanyaan “what” dan “whom” yang berupa object, bisa didapatkan dari
kalimat yang menggunakan transitive verb.

Contoh Transitive Verb:

 After practicing for an hour, the player can hit the tennis ball over the net —> (What can the
player hit over the net? The tennis ball.)
 The student should return the book a week ago —> (Whom should the student return a
week ago? The book.)

Karena tidak mempunyai object, intransitive tidak memiliki passive form.

Contoh:

 The girl filled the basket with a thousand of candies —> (filled=transitive verb, passive form:
The basket were filled by the girl with a thousand of candies.)
 The worker always come on time —> (come=intransitive verb, passive form: -)

Banyak kata kerja dapat menjadi transitive maupun intransitive tergantung pada konteks
kalimatnya.

Contoh Kata Kerja = Transitive = Intransitive:

 In order to lose her weight, Diana doesn’t eat after seven p.m. (intransitive verb)
 My family eats the organic rice. (transitive verb)

 
Contoh Intransitive dan Transitive Verb
Berikut beberapa contoh kalimat intransitive dan transitive verb.

Kata Kerja Contoh Contoh Kalimat

My neighbour has painted his wall in broken
white.
ask, bring, buy, clean, explain, (painted=transitive, his wall=direct object)
Transitive Verb kick, learn, paint, sell, want,
She wanted a bag with low price but high
write
quality.
The boy kicked the ball toward the goal.
The city park’s visitors are not allowed to sit on
the grass.
If you arrive late, I’ll go to the bookstore
arrive, come, die, go, lie, sneeze, without you.
Intransitive Verb
sit, work Cheryl often sneezes while cleaning the
warehouse.
She looked annoyed when her friends came to
her house.
The man has run his business since 1988.
(run=transitive, business=direct object)
Transitive &
eat, run Adventurers must run through the jungle
Intransitive Verb
before night.
(run=intransitive)