This issue often comes up in your posts. Can you tell the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs?
I read 'fainted' can't be put in passive or used as an adjective.
This issue often comes up in your posts. Can you tell the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs?
Thank you for your interest.There is one more feature that intransitive verbs share: they don't take passive forms. And the transitive do.
Of course I can.Transitive verbs need an object.Intransitive verbs don't needs an object.'faint' is an intransitive.
Here is the problem(The aunt gave Jesse mouth-to-mouth resuscitation because he was .......
a- dead b- unlucky c- fainted d- injured )
This sentence was taken from an official exam.
Which of these did they say was the correct answer? Only (d) would possibly be correct, although I could imagine that (b) might be possible!
(c) is clearly incorrect, as DavidA has pointed out.
Why wouldn't 'a' be correct then? After all, it's about the same perverted sense (or lack of it?!) as the 'd' :lol:.
Besides, resuscitation... isn't it raising from the dead?
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