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Title: Adjectives and Adverbs with Transitive and Intransitive Verbs


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Adjectives and Adverbs with Transitive and
Intransitive Verbs

Mini-Lesson 4
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Transitive Verb
  • A transitive verb names an action that directly
    affects person or thing mentioned in the
    predicate.
  • A transitive verb requires an object to complete
    its meaning in the sentence.
  • He struck the gong.
  • Water erodes even granite.
  • Did you mail the letters?
  • We elected Sloan.

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Intransitive Verb
  • An intransitive verb names an action that has no
    direct impact on anyone or anything named in the
    predicate.
  • A intransitive verb requires no object.
  • Frank scowled.
  • Gail won.
  • Children giggle.
  • Wilson smiled at the comedians best efforts,
    but he did not laugh.

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Adjectives with Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
  • Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns, specifying
    such things as how many, what kind, and which
    one.
  • A predicate adjective usually follows a linking
    verb.
  • He is strange.
  • I am slow.
  • The response was quick.
  • She feels bad.
  • We are poor.
  • Linking verbs are used to show a state of being
    of the subject, not what the subject is doing.
    These are as follows
  • feel, look, smell, taste, sound, appear,
    become, remain, stay, be, grow, seem, feel (as
    an emotion)

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Adverbs with Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
  • Adverbs modify a verb, an adjective, another
    adverb, or a whole sentence. It tells such things
    as how, when, where, why, and for what purpose.
  • Unlike the predicate adjective, this ly modifier
    generally follows an action verb.
  • He acts strangely.
  • I speak slowly.
  • We need to act quickly.
  • We act badly.
  • We speak poorly.

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Bad and Badly
  • Bad is an adjective I feel bad about the delay.
  • Badly is an adverb It doesn't hurt so badly now.

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Good and Well
  • Good is an adjective You look good in blue.
    You wear it well.
  • Well is an adverb He gets along well with his
    co-workers.
  • Well is also an adjective when it is used to
    refer to health I am not well today.

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Real and Really
  • Real is an adjective meaning "genuine" really is
    an adverb The admiral has real charm, so he is
    really charismatic.
  • The use of real as an adverb is colloquial or
    nonstandard He writes real really well.

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Sure and Surely
  • Sure is an adjective meaning certain
  • Are you sure (certain)?
  • Yes, Im sure (certain) about the date.
  • Surely is an adverb meaning certainly
  • You surely (certainly) do look good.
  • This Bundu mask surely (certainly) is
    expensive.
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