Question

He spoke the truth. (State whether the verb is transitive or intransitive)

Answer 1

it's transitive verb

Answer 2

Answer:  

The verb ‘spoke’ is a Transitive.  

Explanation:  

A transitive verb is a verb which need help of an object to make it complete and to express the meaning while intransitive verbs are the ones which need not any object to express its though.

For example, Please bring coffee. Here, bring is a transitive verb as without the word / object coffee, what is to be bring? The sentence has no meaning and is incomplete. Hence, object used to make sentence meaningful is ‘coffee’.