Question

the train had still to pick up speed,transitive or intransitive​

Answer 1

Knowing if a verb is transitive or intransitive helps learners to use words correctly and improves grammar accuracy.

To understand what transitive and intransitive verbs are, it’s first necessary to understand what the object of a verb is.

Take a look at these two simple sentences:

My mother likes tea.

My mother laughed.

‘My mother’ is the subject in both sentences. In the first sentence ‘like’ is the verb and ‘tea’ is its object. ‘Like’ is therefore a transitive verb, because it has an object.

In the second sentence, the verb is ‘laugh’. It has no object and is therefore an intransitive verb.

So, we have the following definitions:

a transitive verb has an object

an intransitive verb has NO object.

Now let’s go into more detail about transitive and intransitive verbs by looking at what can follow them in a sentence.

Answer 2

Answer:

pick up is transitive had is intransitive