Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
INTRANSITIVE VERBS
REFERENCE:STRENGTHEN ENGLISH:GRAMMAMAR FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL
BY:DR.TAN CHENG LIM
LET SING!!!
• Transitive Verbs-are the verbs or action • Intrasitive Verbs-are verbs that can stand
words that have its own object that alone by itself even without an object
receive the action or the action is being receiving such action.
done to it.
• Transitive verbs are those actions which
can pass from the subject to the subject
• It is answerable by what or who.
EXAMPLES OF INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE
VERBS
• I cook breakfast
• I write my essay
• We danced last day
• Bird flew south
• She smiled
• We clapped
DRILL
• I will group you into 5, each group will make an act or a role play using the scenario I give
you.
• 1.At birthday party
• 2.At the canteen
• 3.At SM
• 4.At the guidance counselor
• 5.At the cashier’s office
LISTEN CAREFULLY
INSTRUCTIONS CRITERIA
• What you are going to do is make a • [ Criteria: Content- 25%
short conversation depending on your • Creativity- 25%
scenario
• Performance/Stage Presence- 50%
• Underline the verbs being used and the Total= 100%
object if any, then identify if IntV or TrnV.
• This will be the criteria for judging.
GENERALIZATION