Review: Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
Identify whether the underlined verb or compound verb is used transitively or intransitively:
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The old woman struggled up the hill, pulling a grocery cart that had lost one wheel behind her.
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Hermione is editing her uncle's memoirs of his lifetime as a green grocer.
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Much to the amusement of the onlookers, Paul danced a minuet to the polka music that drifted out of the beer tent.
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At the beginning of the play, the entire cast dances manically across the stage.
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Stella is reading quietly in the upstairs bedroom instead of doing her chores.
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This term I am reading all of the works of Sylvia Townsend Warner.
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At the feast, we will eat heartily.
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Charles opened up his lunch, examined the contents carefully, and ate his dessert first.
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The Stephens sisters are both very talented; Virginia writes and Vanessa paints.
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When I was three years old, my father left a can of paint open in my bedroom, and early one morning, I painted my baby brother's face green.
Written by Heather MacFadyen