Transitive verb or Intransitive verb?
“Any verb that requires a direct object is known as a transitive verb. [Example:] I trim the lawn. (The noun lawn receives the action of the verb, the trimming. The verb trim is a transitive verb.) [Example:] I taught the children. (The noun children receives the action of the verb, the teaching. The verb taught is also a transitive verb.) Verbs that do not take objects are intransitive verbs. [Example:] We shall run when we get the chance. (No word receives the action of this verb. Therefore, run is an intransitive verb.) [Example:] We stayed at the Ritz. (No noun or pronoun receives the action of this verb either. It is intransitive.)” (Strumpf and Douglas, The Grammar Bible 71).
