Level: Intermediate
In this transitive and intransitive verb quiz you have to choose which of the two given sentences fits which verb type.
Transitive verbs are verbs that have to take a direct object and may also have an indirect object while intransitive verbs do not take a direct (or indirect) object.
Check out this transitive and intransitive verb lesson before you take the quiz if you are unsure.
Decide whether the verb(s) in the sentence is transitive or intransitive.
The verb has an object (parcel) and so it is transitive. The sentence will not make sense if you take away the direct object.
The verb 'sleep' does not have a direct object (noun) and neither does 'got up' so they are intransitive.
The verb 'listened' has an object (music) and so it is transitive. There may be modifiers in the sentence (an adjective 'loud' in this case) but 'music' is still the object of 'listened'.
'on' is a preposition, so 'on the table' is a prepositional phrase that describes where John sat; The noun 'table' is not the receiver of the verb 'sat'. It is just completing the prepositional phrase.
There is no noun after the verb 'arrived'. The sentence makes sense with no object.
This is a transitive verb with a direct (message) and indirect (her) object.
Lunch is the direct object.
South is a direction (an adverb) that tells you where the migrants went; it is not the object of the verb 'migrated'. 'The war' is not relevant as it's not the object of 'migrated' - that part of the sentence is giving a reason why.
We don't know what was drunk. The phrase 'from the bottle' is a prepositional phrase, not an object.
In this case we know what he drank, the 'beer', which is the object of 'drank'.
'Seem' is an intransitive linking verbs. 'Happy' is an adjective, not a noun.
There is no noun after the verb 'are growing'.
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