Grammer help? Identifying Transitive and Intransitive verbs to be exact?

Question

Ok so I have some grammer homework that I have no idea how to do. The directions are as follows:

Underline the verb or verb phrase in each sentance. If the verb has a direct object, underline it twice. On the line write T for transitive and I for intransitive verbs.

And the first sentance I have to do is this:

"Modern banks is the latest technology for survallence of their offices."

Ok so what is a transitive verb?

What is an intrasitive verb?

Whats the direct object? And doesnt every verb have a direct Object?

Whats a verb phrase?

help.!

Answer 1

With verbs, it is best understood as follows:   There is an actor, an action, and (sometimes) a thing acted upon.

For Example:

Billy  read   the book.

"Billy" is the actor (a noun).

"Read" is the action (the verb itself).  It's what Billy is doing.

"The Book" is the thing acted upon, otherwise known as the DIRECT OBJECT.  

TRANSITIVE verbs are ones with direct objects.  In this case, "read" is a transitive verb because it has a direct object.  What was read?  The book was read.

Some verbs are INTRANSITIVE.

For Example:

The dog jumped.

"Jumped" is the verb in this sentence, and it is INTRANSITIVE, because it does not act upon another object, unlike the verb 'read' does in the previous sentence.

Is your sentence supposed to read "Modern banks *use* the latest technology for surveillance of their offices."  ?

Answer 2

Please correct your spelling.

Grammer, sentance, intrasitive, doesnt

it's very hard to figure out what you are saying when the spelling is so poor.   Sorry.