Transitive or intransitive ?

[Passing by]

Good afternoon everyone!

I have a homework to send to my grammar professor by tomorrow!
I've already finished it, just wanted to be sure about my answers specially the "think" verb..
I'll be waiting for your answers guys :D


Here's my answers...

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1. We ate lunch around 2 p.m. yesterday.

Transitive verb

2. I may apply for a job at Best Buy in Victoria Mall.

Transitive verb

3. I am anxious to finish the research project.

Transitive verb

4. The ducks were swimming in the pond during our picnic.

Intransitive verb

5. The weather has been hot and dry all summer.

Be verb

6. I went to the beach on Tuesday afternoon and played volleyball.

Intransitive verb

7. I can finish that essay exam before I go to the movies.

Transitive verb

8. I should bake the cake for Mom’s birthday.

Transitive verb

9. We have been ill all weekend.

Be verb

10. The dogs tore open the trash bags and messed up the house.

Transitive verb

11. John thinks about moving to Alaska every day.

Intransitive

12. The truck driver honks his horn when vehicles swerve into his path.

Transitive

13. James is a nice person.

Be verb

14. The new cat could be a calico.

Be verb

15. We have been waiting for twenty minutes in the dentist’s office.

Intransitive verb




thank you all!

[Coolfootluke]

I am not a teacher.

Good afternoon everyone!

I have a homework to send to my grammar professor by tomorrow!
I've already finished it, just wanted to be sure about my answers specially the "think" verb..
I'll be waiting for your answers guys :D


Here's my answers...

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1. We ate lunch around 2 p.m. yesterday.

Transitive verb

2. I may apply for a job at Best Buy in Victoria Mall.

Transitive verb

Intransitive. You are not applying anything.

3. I am anxious to finish the research project.

Transitive verb

Neither. "To finish" is an infinitive.

4. The ducks were swimming in the pond during our picnic.

Intransitive verb

5. The weather has been hot and dry all summer.

Be verb

"To be" is not always transitive, but it is here.

6. I went to the beach on Tuesday afternoon and played volleyball.

Intransitive verb

7. I can finish that essay exam before I go to the movies.

Transitive verb

8. I should bake the cake for Mom’s birthday.

Transitive verb

9. We have been ill all weekend.

Be verb

10. The dogs tore open the trash bags and messed up the house.

Transitive verb

"Tore" is the verb; "open" is an adverb.

11. John thinks about moving to Alaska every day.

Intransitive

12. The truck driver honks his horn when vehicles swerve into his path.

Transitive

13. James is a nice person.

Be verb

14. The new cat could be a calico.

Be verb

15. We have been waiting for twenty minutes in the dentist’s office.

Intransitive verb

thank you all!

And y'all are welcome.

[Passing by]

Thank you...

[Coolfootluke]

"open" is an adjective, IMO, with a resultative meaning.

The dogs caused the trash bags to be open.
Bags are open.

? The dogs tore open the trash bags. Tore how? Open. No.
"open" does not describe the action, but the bags' resulting state.

I am not a teacher.

OK, but if they tore them apart, "apart" is an adverb, even though the resulting state of the bags is that they are apart. This one won't hold still for me. If anyone wants to call "open" an adjective here, I'm fine with that. I think the parts of speech are an imperfect system, anyway.

[Khosro]

Passing by!

Now that you have the correct answers I recommend that you give it to your teacher the way it was before, so that your teacher has an opportunity to evaluate you and detect your weak points and make plans to improve them.

[mara_ce]

I think that "finish" is a transitive verb in this case, and " the research project" its direct object.

[Coolfootluke]

I think that "finish" is a transitive verb in this case, and " the research project" its direct object.

I am not a teacher.

OK, what is "to"?

[mara_ce]

I am not a teacher.

OK, what is "to"?

Hi Coolfootluke,

I don´t remember the name of "to". I think it is a particle. I´ll check it later.

Infinitive: to + finish.
Bare infinitive: finish

I´d like to finish my homework before lunch.

My mother made me finish my homework before lunch.

Transitive verbs can be followed by direct and indirect objects.

In the above sentences, "finish" is a transitive verb followed by its direct object : "my homework".
What precedes the verb doesn´t count, in my opinion.

[5jj]

Infinitive: to + finish.
Bare infinitive: finish

I prefer:
to-infinitive: to finish
bare infinitive: finish

[Passing by]

Khosro

Ooops!
I've already sent the e-mail! .. Should I feel guilty ?

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BTW .. we haven't studied the rest of the core verbs yet!
that's why we're only dividing verbs into "transitive & intransitive" only


And thanks all