Grammer help transitive and intransitive help ?

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Transitive and intransitive verbs please help me ?

Transitive or intransitive verbs?

identify the verb and tell if it is transitive or intransitive thankyou

8. This religious group founded settlements in Virginia and New England.

9. Indentured servants also traveled to American shores.

10. The poor of England desired economic opportunity.

11. They worked in America as payment for thier passage.

12. Many remained in America after settlement of thier debts.

13. Some indentured themselves for seven years.

14. Tenant farmers came,too.

15. They brought thier dreams of prosperity with them.

16. These Colonial settlers arrived with hope.

17. From the American Indians, the immigrants learned a great deal.

18. New England coloonists celebrated their first Thanksgiving Day in American in 1612.

19. They held the celebration after the harvest.

20 Many of thier American Indian neighbors shared in the celebration.

thats it thankyou for awll your help

Answer 1

A transitive verb has an object, so look at the sentences to see if there is an object of the verb's action.  An intransitive verb is an action verb, but the action is not transferred to anything, but it is usually modified by a preposition phrase or an adverb.

8.  "Founded" has an object (settlement), so it is transitive.

9.  "Traveled" has no object, but is modified by a prepositional phrase (to American shores), so it is intransitive.

10. desired = transitive because object =opportunity

11.worked =intransitive because prep. phrase modifier = in America

12.  remained = intransitive (ditto above)

13.  indentured = transitive because object = themselves

14.  came = intransitive, no object

15.  brought = transitive, object = dreams

16.  arrived = intransitive, no object, but prep phrase modifier = with hope

17. learned = transitive, object = great deal

18.  celebrated = transitive, object Thanksgiving Day

19.  held = transitive, object celebration

20. shared = intransitive because no object, but prep phrase modifier - in the celebration

Do those explanations help you see the differences in the two types of verbs?

Answer 2

"The transitive verb expresses action that begins in the subject (agent) and 'goes across' (trans+ire) to the object (receiver).The object may not be the same as the subject, for example: He cut himself. But it need not be the same, for example: He cut the cake....A transitive verb always requires a complement, that is, a word which completes the meaning of the predicate."

"The intransitive verb expresses action that begins and ends in the agent, the subject; consequently, the subject must be both agent and patient, for example: The bird flies."