Could you help me; I would really like to just have a moment of your time for my question; thanks.
I appreciate it.
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Good morning, Destroyer.
(1) I think that many books explain that a transitive verb requires an actor who does something to the object:
(a) I eat an apple.
(i) I am the actor; I do something to the apple.
(2) An intransitive verb has only an actor.
(a) On the weekends, I don't do anything except eat.
(i) I am the actor, but there is no object.
(3) If you study a good dictionary, you will learn which verbs are usually transitive, intransitive, or both (such as "eat").
(4) This is a pretty difficult matter. For example:
(a) I eat fast. = intransitive. No object. ("fast" is only an adverb telling you how I eat.)
(b) A cookie was eaten. = transitive because:
(i) That is a passive sentence that means something like "I/ you/ he/she ate a cookie."
(a) We have an actor (I/you/she/he).
(b) We have an object (a cookie).
Thank you for the question.