Find and write the and intransitive verbs in the following sentences. 1) A rose smells sweet
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Explanation:
I've been seeing people maintaining that, ‘the rose is sweet when smelt’, is the passive voice of ‘the rose smells sweet’. It isn't.
The English Language is full of idiosyncrasies! And hence, in English, it's not rare for a verb to be transitive in one sentence and intransitive in another.
1.The rose smells sweet.
2.The child smells the rose.
3.The rose smells.
Sentence 1. The rose smells sweet. The rose has a nice, sweet fragrance. The word ‘sweet’ (adjective) describes the Rose. There is no subject here to do the action of smelling. That is, no one is smelling the rose. Nor the rose is smelling anything. No subject; no object. Smell is a linking verb ( copular verb) here which links the rose to its complement sweet.
Linking verbs are intransitive. They do not take an object. They only have a subject complement following them, which can be an adjective or a noun.
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