7. He was very much shook by the news.
8. The matter was took up by the committee.
9. The horse has been stole from the owner.
10. Goliath was slew by David.
11. The words have been spoke in anger.
12. I have went to church every day.
13. Was the river froze enough for skating?
14. He begun to take notice immediately.
15. The umbrella was blew to pieces.
16. I have broke my ruler.
17. Jones was chose as leader of the class.
18. He said he come as soon as he could.
19. I done it.
20. I have never did anything so foolish.
21. I have ate all that was in the lunch-box.
22. The horse was drove ten miles.
EXERCISE 33
_Write sentences in which the following verb forms are properly
used:_
begun, blew, broke, chose, come, came, done, did, drew, drunk,
drove, ate, flew, forsook, froze, forgot, gave, give, went, hang,
hung, knew, rode, run, shook, sung, slew, spoke, stole, took, tore,
threw, wore, wrote.
55. TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE VERBS. A TRANSITIVE VERB is one
in which the action of the verb goes over to a receiver; as, _He
KILLED the horse, I KEEP my word_. In both these sentences, the
verb serves to transfer the action from the subject to the object
or receiver of the action. The verbs in these sentences, and all
similar verbs, are transitive verbs. All others, in which the action
does not go to a receiver, are called INTRANSITIVE VERBS.
56. ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE. The ACTIVE VOICE represents the subject
as the doer of the action; as, _I tell, I see, He makes chairs_.
The PASSIVE VOICE represents the subject as the receiver of the
action; as, _I am told, I am seen, I have been seen, Chairs are
made by me_. Since only transitive verbs can have a receiver of
the action, only transitive verbs can have both active and passive
voice.
57. There are a few special verbs in which the failure to distinguish
between the transitive and the intransitive verbs leads to frequent
error. The most important of these verbs are the following: _sit,
set, awake, wake, lie, lay, rise, arise, raise, fell_, and _fall_.
Note again the principal parts of these verbs:
wake (to rouse another) woke, waked woke, waked
awake (to cease to sleep) awoke, awaked awaked
fell (to strike down) felled felled
fall (to topple over) fell fallen
lay (to place) laid laid
lie (to recline) lay lain
raise (to cause to ascend) ra
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