Part 14 (2/2)

41 WRITE Although he has ---- several ti about that He ---- to me just last week He ---- at least once a month

EXERCISE 32

_Correct the errors in the use of verbs in the following sentences:_

1 He plead all day to be released

2 The horse was rode to death

3 The letter rote before he knowed the truth

4 He was immediately threw out of the room

5 She run around all day and then was sick the next day

6 I never seen anything like it

7 He was very much shook by the news

8 The matter was took up by the committee

9 The horse has been stole from the owner

10 Goliath was slew by David

11 The words have been spoke in anger

12 I have went to church every day

13 Was the river froze enough for skating?

14 He begun to take notice immediately

15 The umbrella was blew to pieces

16 I have broke my ruler

17 Jones was chose as leader of the class

18 He said he come as soon as he could

19 I done it

20 I have never did anything so foolish

21 I have ate all that was in the lunch-box

22 The horse was drove ten miles

EXERCISE 33

_Write sentences in which the following verb forun, blew, broke, chose, come, came, done, did, drew, drunk, drove, ate, flew, forsook, froze, forgot, gave, give, went, hang, hung, knew, rode, run, shook, sung, slew, spoke, stole, took, tore, threore, wrote

55 TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE VERBS A TRANSITIVE VERB is one in which the action of the verb goes over to a receiver; as, _He KILLED the horse, I KEEP my word_ In both these sentences, the verb serves to transfer the action from the subject to the object or receiver of the action The verbs in these sentences, and all similar verbs, are transitive verbs All others, in which the action does not go to a receiver, are called INTRANSITIVE VERBS

56 ACTIVE AND PassIVE VOICE The ACTIVE VOICE represents the subject as the doer of the action; as, _I tell, I see, He makes chairs_

The PassIVE VOICE represents the subject as the receiver of the action; as, _I am told, I am seen, I have been seen, Chairs are made by me_ Since only transitive verbs can have a receiver of the action, only transitive verbs can have both active and passive voice

57 There are a few special verbs in which the failure to distinguish between the transitive and the intransitive verbs leads to frequent error The : _sit, set, awake, wake, lie, lay, rise, arise, raise, fell_, and _fall_

Note again the principal parts of these verbs:

wake (to rouse another) woke, waked woke, waked awake (to cease to sleep) awoke, awaked awaked

fell (to strike down) felled felled fall (to topple over) fell fallen

lay (to place) laid laid lie (to recline) lay lain

raise (to cause to ascend) raised raised (a)rise (to ascend) (a)rose (a)risen

set (to place) set set sit (to rest) sat sat

The first of each pair of the above verbs is transitive, and the second is intransitive Only the first, then, of each pair can have an object or can be used in the passive voice