Is this sentence transitive-the dog barked at the cats?
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Do you see a direct object for “barks”? So there’s no action moving from subject “the dog” to anything. TRANSIT means (or once meant) he/she/it goes across. In a textbook sentence with a transitive verb, it’s easy to see - JANE THREW THE BALL. Jane did it, the ball got it so it is in transitive that the dog barked at the cats...
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Do you see a direct object for “barks”? So there’s no action moving from subject “the dog” to anything. TRANSIT means (or once meant) he/she/it goes across. In a textbook sentence with a transitive verb, it’s easy to see - JANE THREW THE BALL. Jane did it, the ball got it so it is in transitive that the dog barked at the cats...
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