how can you tell whether a verb is transitive and intransitive?
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ask the verb the question whom or what.if you get an answer the verb is transitive.otherwise intransitive.\ni ran fast\ni ran whom \nI ran what no answer so intransitive\ni ran a private taxi\ni ran what answer a private taxi.here the verb ran is transitive\nhe hit sue.\nhe hit whom? answer sue.so the verb is transitive\ni gave him a pencil.\ni gave what,a pencil\ni gave whom him\ntherefore the verb gave is transitive\nif it answers the question what it is said to take a direct object\nif it answers whom,indirect object\ni am giving only thumb rules\nby no means this is an exhaustive treatise
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I assume you mean as a *linking* verb, not as a transitive verb, as the other answers assume.\n\nWhile most linking verbs can take either a predicate adjective or predicate nominative, "feel" only takes an adjective or prepositional phrase:\n\nI feel sick.\nI feel like a fool.\n\n"Seem"--another linking verb--takes predicate nominatives for British English and not American:\n\nHe seems a fool.  (Works in the UK, not in the US.)\n\nIt all depends on which linking verb you are using.
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In the sentence "what is the verb in this sentence?", the verb is "is".
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The verb of a sentence states what the subject does. \n   For example: "The dog ran down the street." The dog is the subject and the verb "ran" is stating what the subject does.
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Jesse S does not know the meaning of transitive. He is thinking of another similar word, or is being a smart alec and not at all helpful to you. Ignore him.\n\nCan you say the word 'something' after a verb? If you can, then it is a transitive verb. If not, then it is an intransitive verb.\n\ne.g.  to lift (can you lift something? Yes. So 'lift' is a transitive verb.)\nto fall (can you fall something? No. So 'fall' is an intransitive verb.)\nto go (can you go something? No. Intransitive.)\nto eat (can you eat something? Yes. Transitive)\nto remember (transitive)\nto sleep (intransitive)\n\nYou can think of many others, I'm sure.
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It is a predicate (verb) that contains two or more verbs. For example, "He is eating a sandwich." Is eating is a compound verb phrase. "He has been taking piano lessons." Has been taking. "I was given a beautiful scarf for my birthday." Was given. "I am hungry" Am is a simple predicate because there is only one verb in the predicate. \nAnd so on.
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I think examples will illustrate this best.\n\nCOMPOUND SUBJECT. Bill and Gary went to the movies.\n                                          Mary and Beth graduated in June.\n\nBill and Gary is a compound subject as is Mary and Beth. \n\nCOMPOUND OBJECTS: The child threw the pail and shovel.\n                                           Grace kicked the chair and desk.\n\nPail and shovel are direct objects of the verb threw. Chair and desk are the direct objects of the verb kicked.\n\nMost compounds are joined by and, or, for, nor or but. However, they may also be joined by either/or, neither/nor, both/and, not only/but also.\n\nI hope this helps you.
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Are you discussing a class in school?  Or are you discussing the grammatical "simple subject"?\n\nIf it is a class, that totally depends on your interests.\nIf it is part of grammar, that would be You, "I", "He", "She", or "It". An example would be "I ran."   I is the simple subject, ran is the verb.
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interrogative. declarative. exclamatory
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Passive\nAssertive\naggressive
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FOR is followed by a noun (sometimes a gerund) and\nIN ORDER TO is followed by a verb
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Case 0 -- NOT TRANSITIVE\n"is no more than 1 away from"\nSymmetric:  If A is no more than 1 away from B, then B is... A.\nReflexive:  A is no more than 1 away from A\nNot Transitive:  If A is no more than 1 away from B, and B is no more than 1 away from C... you can't conclude that A is no more than 1 away from C.  (Take 1,2,3 as an example)\n\nCase 1 -- NOT SYMMETRIC\n"greater than or equal to"\nReflexive: A >= A\nTransitive: if A >= B and B >= C then A >= C\nNot Symmetric:  A >= B does not imply B >= A (e.g. 5,3)\n\nCase 2 -- NOT REFLEXIVE\n"is a sister to"\nSymmetric:  A is a sister to B, so B is a sister to A\nTransitive: A is a sister to B and B is a sister to C, so A is a sister to C\nNot Reflexive:  A is *not* a sister to A.\n\n----- \nEdit:  Other examples of Case 0 (not transitive):\n"knows" as in two people know each other.\nReflexive:\nA knows A\nSymmetric:\nA knows B, implies B knows A.\nNot transitive:\nA knows B and B knows C, doesn't imply that A knows C.\n\n"Has the same grandparent"\nReflexive:\nA has the same grandparent as A\nSymmetric:\nA has the same grandparent as B --> B ... A\nNot transitive:\nA ... B and B ... C, but A may not have the same grandparent as C.\n\n"classmates"\nReflexive:\nA was in the same class as A\nSymmetric:\nA took the same class as B, so B took the same class as A\nNot Reflexive:\nFor example, A took French with B, and B took Biology with C, but A and C never had any classes in common.
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Verb - a 'doing' word.\n\nIn this sentence, the verb is 'stop'.\n\nA transitive verb is one that can take an object.  For example:  'I hit John'.  ('hit' is 'transitional' between 'I' and 'John').\n\nAn intransitive verb is one that does not take an object.  For example: 'laugh'.  (I can laugh but I cannot laugh something/someone).\n\nSome verbs (like 'stop') can be transitive OR intransitive.  Example:  The noise stopped.  (Intransitive) as opposed to 'I stopped the noise'.  (Transitive).\n\nIn your sentence, 'stop' is used intransitively.\n\nI am not sure what you mean by a 'linking verb'.  If you mean an auxiliary verb, then 'has' is an auxiliary verb in your sentence.  (The sentence uses the present perfect simple tense of 'stop'.  This tense uses the verb 'have' as an auxiliary.  It's a question, so the auxiliary verb and subject are inverted.  'Has the noise stopped.')
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Yes, 'name' is the object of the preposition 'in'. \n\n"What's" is the contraction of "What is".\n\n'What' is a Interrogative Pronoun, \n\n'is' is a verb (present singular of the irregular verb "to be") \n\n'in' is a preposition.\n\n'a' is an adjective (but classified along with 'an' and 'the' as article) and \n\n'name' is a noun.
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The various proposed answeres are wrong when they suggest that 1 and 3 are incorrect. they are not common, and most people don't now use them, but they have been used in speech and in writing.\n\nEnglish verb tenses, particularly the complex ones (with the helper verbs), are numerous and often only subtly different. In this case the distinction is between a fact of reality (it can't have been <whatever> which would presumably be discovered when actually confronting the facts  and a conditional conclusion disproved. \n\nHis igorance in 1 is the fact,  and the door's locked condition is the fact in 3. For 2 and 4 some investigation suggests that it ould have been impossible that <whatever> because of something which turned up later. It turned out that he knew in 2, while something shows that contrary to expectation, some new fact shows that the door being locked is impossible. \n\nSome languages, like Navajo, include in verb tneses information about  the nature of the agent which caused the <whatever> we are observing. One tnese for a fence knocked down by a windstorm, another for the same fence, knocked down to the same condition, by a living agent (cows, maybe). Englich complex tenses tend to convey information about probabilities and expectations as well as time values and conditionality (eg, subjunctive). for those who master them, the English tense system is a supple and graceful tool.
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Science Teacher---if you change the pronoun, then two more of your examples work:\n\n"Singular verbs are in the form associated with one person.\n\nWhich is correct?\nHe sees a bird\nHe fly to town\nHe shirts on his back\nHe walk to town"\n\nTry this:\nHe sees a bird.\nI fly to town.\nI walk to town.\n\nAll of those work if you adjust the pronoun to fit the verb conjugations.\n\nSo the correct answer would be that three are singular verbs: "sees", "fly" and "walk".
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it depdens in which language you want to know. There are many verbs in one language that won't have translation in another.