6. English Grammar Lesson. Transitive Verbs and Direct Objects

[Cienstin]

Instead of explaining the framework and logic behind transitivity and intransitivity, this instructor develves into a series of convoluted questions posed in the passive that reveals little on the framework of verb phrases and that barely explains the reason why some verb phrases require an object and why some do not.

For thoses interested in this topic of transitivity read 'Transformational Grammar' by Andrew Radford.

[Kounelli33]

This teacher is now a taxi driver in Rochester.

[moksshhh]

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[awesomeZvidos]

can a transive be in a prepositional phrase?

[LoverQT101]

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[corndancer]

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[DJKEITH14]

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[yuriamancio]

so, the soup is the object of the verb taste, then what is the indirect object? soup or lousy??

thanks

[mrthoth]

@yuriamancio Thanks for your question! Some sentences have no direct objects. Some sentences have no indirect objects. The sentence in the video is "The soup tastes lousy." There is no direct object in the sentence. "Soup" is the subject, and "lousy" is something called a subjective complement. You can learn about this kind of sentence in the next video, "Copulative Verbs and Subjective Complements."

[yuriamancio]

@mrthoth Thanks for the answer....often I have to watch your video more than once, because you have a great sense of humor and that makes me laugh....

e.g: What is tasted?? Lousy...that's what.....

Sandor thinking....what Sandor doing....Thinking...Sandor thinking...that is not English....

Congratulations.....Yuri from Brazil

[cGZynex]

@mrthoth Can I ask why you say tastes is an intransitive verb? Isn't it a linking verb because it modifies soup and lousy which are the same thing, which would make it a linking verb correct?

[mrthoth]

@cGZynex Linking verbs (or copulative verbs) are a subset of intransitive verbs. (When you look up a copulative verb in the dictionary, the dictionary calls it intransitive, as I do here.)

[adamthelover10]

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[cGZynex]

@adamthelover10 wrong. he confuses the simple minded.

[TheLarssan]

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[kecakurdan101]

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[honnor2008]

I can't really comment on whether he is right or not as I don't properly understand this concept. Don't know if this helps or not though but he is not saying 'I am Wilson.' He is saying, 'I am a Welshman.'

[sacarainn14]

Clarifications: (correct me if I'm wrong)

1. One of the characteristics of a TRANSITIVE VERB is that it is an ACTION VERB.

Thus, your example:

I have a cold.

I am Wilson.

The soup tastes lousy === are not considered transitive verbs.

Instead:

I am Wilson ==> AM is a copula/copular Verb.

The soup tastes lousy. ===> TASTES is a Perception Copula (or we commonly know linking verbs)

2. Copulas links nonverbal predicates.

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[marcellorenatto]

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[ThePastIsNothing]

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[mah927]

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[Jamesk899]

Thanks. My sixth grade teacher explained this horribly. You did a much better job.

[emerset]

on Yoda's behalf, he would neither say "The board was hit by me" nor "The board hit I" but "The board I hit."

proof:

"Agree with you the council does"

It is not a passive sentence:

he simply places the predicate in the beginning.

[CandyMomma14]

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[1234jnanzitoune]

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[TheVisionOfHope]

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[HaRdYgUrL67]

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[hemhem17]

why???... tasted like soup??

[lineofhope123]

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[nsoroma000]

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[carlosms83]

but why? you comment the same in all the videos. loser, get a life

[facebookuser4life]

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[conniedc1965]

The question for sentence 2 should have been "What do I have?" instead of "What is had." The question for sentence 3 should have been "What am I?" instead of "What is been?" The fourth sentence is not a transitive verb but a linking verb because the verb taste is followed by an adjective which means the pattern for this sentence is Subject-Linking Verb-Complement or SLVC pattern.

[GannonSlayer1437]

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[niceace]

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[bibliosensei]

At first I wondered why that last sentence was with those examples when in fact the topic is transitive verb and its object. But then, the teacher intelligently pronounced the flexibility of verbs in the english language; otherwise, I might have reacted violently over this video... hehe... lol

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[neverend7]

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[tennisbabe081]

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[englishwithtony]

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[DipologGirl]

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[fadfan]

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