Exercise: Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

1. The birdcage swung from a golden chain. INTRANSITIVE

2. Margaret angrily crumpled her letter in her fist. TRANSITIVE

3. Someone answered that question. TRANSITIVE

4. He shuddered with fright during the scary part of the movie. INTRANSITIVE

5. The rats chewed their way into the old house. TRANSITIVE

6. Acorns drop from the trees every fall. INTRANSITIVE

7. Charlie combed his hair nervously before the dance. TRANSITIVE

8. We bought paper napkins for the picnic. TRANSITIVE

9. Zelda smiled at the thought of a parade in the snow. INTRANSITIVE

10. Fish and potatoes sizzled in the pan. INTRANSITIVE

Tricky Transitives Exercise

1. You wash the dishes and I’ll dry. 

2. Are you ready to order a pizza?

3. Do you drink beer?  

4. Who scored the goal?

5. It’s your turn to deal the ball.

6. I’ll weed the garden and you can water.

Reflection Task 1b - Rewritten

I think Tim Getman is not known by many of you. He was born in the US; he learned how to speak fluently when he was two months old. When he was three years old, he was doing calculus. At the age of five, he mastered Japanese and German. At nine years of age, he was admitted to the University of Harvard's Department of Advanced Mathematics. He graduated from his department at the age of twelve. He completed his graduate degree at the age of thirteen. The day he turned fifteen, he completed his master's degree. At the age of eighteen, he completed his Doctorate of Philosophy in Advanced Mathematics.
He can make eighty-digit calculations in his head. He can play the piano, the guitar and the saxophone. He also has a talent of playing two different musical pieces at the same time. His hobbies include solving extremely difficult mathematical problems, reading classics, learning Chinese and Arabic, and studying science.
He is now lecturing at Harvard University. None of the students understand what he is teaching due to his genius. He has a salary of fifty thousand dollars a month. He donates forty thousand dollars of his salary to Middle East Technical University each month.
He is married, and has two children, both of whom are endowed with amazing intellectual abilities. One of his children, Mark, has graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine at the age of twelve. He is now a world renowned surgeon at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His other son, David, has graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Physics Department. He is now a professor at MIT.

Tim Getman is famous for his amazing intellect and hereditary genius

A Poem from the Perspective of Elizabeth II

I used to walk, run smell the flowers
I would dance when people gathered
Now in the morning I oversleep
Previously, I used to get up early.
I used to travel around the world,
being served, eating and drinking the most delicious stuff
Listen as the crowd would call my name
Now I'm an old woman who can barely stand up.
One minute I was young,
next I was old.
I discovered that life is short
and I am also short.

Answers to Macmillan, p. 19, e. 3

b. was waiting - saw - were staring
c. heard - knew - was trying
d. didn't remember - hadn't been driving - had almost stopped
e. arrived - had already put out - were carrying
f. were you doing - did you run away - told
g. was painting - fell off - didn't break
h. didn't turn up - got - had already closed
i. hadn't forgotten - had fired - was taking
j. was having - decided - had helped