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    Name ___________________________________________________ Class _________ Date ____________________

    Lesson 14
    Verbs: Transitive and Intransitive

    Depending on its use in a particular sentence, an action verb can be either


    transitive or intransitive. A transitive verb is followed by a word or words—
    called the direct object—that answer the question what? or whom? An
    intransitive verb is an action verb that does not have a direct object.
    Transitive: The pilot landed the antique airplane. (Airplane is the direct object
    that answers the question landed what? after the verb landed.)
    Intransitive: The pilot landed carefully. (There is no direct object answering the

    Grammar
    question landed what? or whom?)

     Exercise 1 Draw two lines under each action verb. Circle each direct object. Write T in
    the blank if the verb is transitive or I if the verb is intransitive.
    T The pilot started the airplane.
    T 1. Wilbur and Orville Wright built the first successful airplane.
    T 2. They built their machine in Ohio.
    T 3. They took it to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, for its first flight.
    T 4. Orville Wright flew the first airplane on December 17, 1903.
    I 5. The winds at Kitty Hawk blew steadily that day.
    I 6. The twelve-horsepower engine sputtered.
    T
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    7. Soon it lifted the 750-pound plane into the air for a flight of 120 feet.
    I 8. Orville’s brother, Wilbur, ran alongside.
    T 9. This first flight lasted only twelve seconds.
    T 10. The Wright brothers made three more flights that day.
    T 11. The longest one lasted fifty-nine seconds.
    T 12. Few newspapers carried news about the first flight.
    T 13. The brothers made improvements on their airplane and their flight techniques.
    I 14. Other designers worked hard.
    I 15. More successful airplanes appeared.

    Unit 3, Verbs 77
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    T 16. Of course, the first pilots had no flight instructors.


    I 17. Louis Blériot flew across the English Channel in 1909.
    T 18. In 1910, Glenn H. Curtiss piloted his craft from Albany to New York City.
    I 19. Airplane technology grew quickly.
    T 20. At first, persons used open fields as airports.
    T 21. Some airports today retain the word field in their names.
    I 22. Air fields operated as early as 1909.
    Grammar

    T 23. Workers built twenty airports in three years.


    I 24. In 1914, the First World War began.
    T 25. Both sides in the war found new uses for airplanes.
    I 26. The number of air fields expanded because of the new airplane technologies.
    T 27. After the war, even the U.S. Postal Service realized its need for airplanes.
    T 28. In the 1930s, passengers used planes as an important means of transportation.
    T 29. The government counted 1,036 airports in the United States in 1927.
    I 30. Today more than eleven thousand airports exist in the United States.
    T 31. Fewer than one thousand of them serve large planes.
    T 32. Planners established airports close to cities for convenience.
    T 33. They chose the sites carefully.
    T 34. Nonetheless, airports created problems for some persons.

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    T 35. Jet engines generate more noise than propeller engines.
    I 36. Nearby residents complain sometimes about the noise problem.

     Writing Link Would you like to become a pilot someday? Write a paragraph
    explaining why or why not. Use transitive and intransitive verbs.

    78 Grammar and Language Workbook, Grade 8

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