Intransitive is a label applied to a verb that does not take a direct object. Some English verbs are always intransitive and can never take an object.<\/p>\n
Examples are: sleep, come, go, die, fall, laugh, arrive etc.<\/p>\n
The child sleeps.
\nHe might come.
\nHe laughed loudly.
\nAlice arrived early.<\/p>\n
Many verbs can be either transitive or intransitive.<\/p>\n
Examples are: sink, ring, stop, speak etc.<\/em><\/p>\n The explosion sank the ship. (transitive) A verb which can be either transitive or intransitive with related meanings. English has many labile verbs.<\/p>\n Examples are: ring, sink, smoke, undress, fight etc.<\/p>\n Ring the bell. (transitive) Intransitive is a label applied to a verb that does not take a direct object. Some English verbs are always intransitive and can never take an object. Examples are: sleep, come, go, die, fall,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[855,854,856,862,770],"class_list":["post-71764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-intransitive","tag-intransitive-verb","tag-intransitives","tag-labile-verb","tag-verb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71769,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71764\/revisions\/71769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe ship sank slowly. (intransitive)
\nThe driver stopped the train. (transitive)
\nThe train stopped suddenly. (intransitive)
\nHe spoke the truth. (transitive)
\nHe spoke rudely. (intransitive)<\/p>\nLabile verb<\/h3>\n
\nThe bell rang. (intransitive)
\nThe explosion sank the ship. (transitive)
\nThe ship sank rapidly. (intransitive)
\nThe soldiers fought the enemies. (transitive)
\nThey fought bravely. (intransitive)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"