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Home My account Help Logout Dictionary Culture Thesaurus Study Centre Pronunciation Exam Practice Grammar Video Library Grammar Guide Communication Guide Intermediate Practice Advanced Practice Scores Adjectives Adverbs Nouns Verbs Prepositions Verbs Transitive and intransitive verbs Transitive or intransitive A transitive verb normally takes an object The object can be a noun a noun phrase or a pronoun Did you enjoy the ?lm We need more printer paper It ? s OK I ? ve found it A verb followed by a that clause is also considered to be transitive You can omit that from the clause I know that you ? re busy He said he was coming later An intransitive verb does not normally take an object She cried The sun is setting Did you sleep well To link an intransitive verb with a noun you need a preposition I agree with your comment ? Don't say I agree your comment We apologize for the delay ? Don't say We apologize the delay She waited for him ? Don't say She waited him ? Transitive verbs are labelled T in the dictionary Intransitive verbs are labelled I Transitive and intransitive Some verbs can be both transitive and intransitive Have you eaten anything transitive Have you eaten intransitive Sometimes the meaning is di ?erent They managed to recover some of the money to get it back transitive She is recovering from an operation starting to feel well again intransitive There is a group of verbs where the same noun can be the subject of the verb or its object ? Many of these verbs are to do with cooking e g boil bake cook fry roast I ? m cooking some pasta transitive pasta object Some pasta is cooking intransitive pasta subject ? Other verbs that behave like this are begin blow break change dry fasten ?ll open ring start vary Someone rang the bell transitive bell object The bell rang intransitive bell subject Verb patterns Verb -ing form Some verbs are followed by an -ing form Some of these verbs are admit avoid consider delay deny ?nish imagine keep mention mind miss practise recall recommend risk CThey managed to avoid being seen I considered applying for a new job Can you imagine living in a house like that These verbs can also be followed by a noun We try to avoid trouble She considered their o ?er I can ? t imagine a situation in which I ? d lie to my parents If a verb is followed by a preposition you use an -ing form after the preposition Some of these verbs are accuse sb of apologise for complain about concentrate on discourage sb from dream of forgive sb for insist on object to persist in prevent sb from succeed in thank sb for think about of She dreamed of being a dancer They insist on having hours ? notice These verbs can also be followed by a preposition a noun She dreamed of a career as a