Transitive Verb Meaning and Examples
Transitive Verb Meaning and Examples
Hi again!! we had a mini English debate at home today 🫣
My kid has an assignment about transitive verbs, and we started testing each other with random sentences. It was all fun until we got stuck on one:
"She reads every night."
At first, we thought "reads" was transitive, but then we realized there’s no direct object—unless we add what she reads, like "a book." Now, my kid is on a mission to find tricky examples, and I promised we’d get expert advice.
My kid has an assignment about transitive verbs, and we started testing each other with random sentences. It was all fun until we got stuck on one:
"She reads every night."
At first, we thought "reads" was transitive, but then we realized there’s no direct object—unless we add what she reads, like "a book." Now, my kid is on a mission to find tricky examples, and I promised we’d get expert advice.
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Hello! You're on the right track with the sentence "She reads every night."
- Transitive verbs need a direct object (something or someone receiving the action), like in "She reads a book." The verb reads is transitive here because a book is the direct object.
- In your sentence, "She reads every night," reads is intransitive because there's no direct object. The action isn't being done to something—it’s just read as an action she does regularly. You could say "She reads books every night" to make it transitive.
Some tricky examples:
- Intransitive: "He sleeps soundly." (No direct object.)
- Transitive: "He sleeps a lot." (Though a lot isn't a strict direct object, it's modifying the verb and giving it direction.)
Hope that helps!
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