Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

What is the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs in English?
When we learn English verbs, and especially phrasal verbs, it is important to consider whether a verb is transitive or intransitive.
Labeling verbs as transitive or intransitive sounds more complicated than it is.   Transitive verbs are simply verbs which have, or could have, a direct object. Intransitives do not.  Just like that...  So lets see what Aslihan blog shows about this topic.   Aslihan’s Website, available in: https://aslihangr.weebly.com/transitive-intransitive-verbs-in-passive.html

TRANSITIVE   AND INTRANSITIVE VERB
A verb can be either transitive or intransitive. A transitive verb needs an object (in sentence) to give complete meaning while intransitive verb does need an object (in sentence) to give complete meaning.  
For example,

Transitive verb.
      He sent a letter.
  (Send is a transitive verb and it needs an object i.e. letter to express full meaning.)

Intransitive Verb.
       He laughs. 
      (Laugh is an intransitive verb and it does not need object for expressing full meaning.) 
    e.g. Sleep, go, reach, sit, die, are examples of intransitive verbs.

Intransitive verb cannot be changed into passive voiceThe sentences having intransitive verbs (belonging to any tense) cannot be changed into passive voice. The reason is that there is not any object in such sentences and without object of sentence passive voice is not possible. 

A sentence can be changed into passive voice if it has subject and object. Sometimes subject may not be written in passive voice but it does not mean that it has no subject. Such sentences have subject but the subject is so common or familiar or known that if even it is not written in passive voice, it gives full meaning.
For example
Cloth is sold in yards.   

The following tenses can also not be changed into passive voice.

1.  Present perfect continuous tense
2.  Past perfect continuous tense
3.  Future continuous tense
4.  Future perfect continuous tense

Transitive verbs are verbs that have subjects or objects that receive the action. They are either active voice orpassive voice. Transitive active verbs are the verbs in sentences with a direct object. Example: The boy kicked the ball. The subject is the doer and the direct object is the receiver of the action. Transitive passive verbs have the subject receiving the action with the doer in a prepositional phrase or omitted in the sentence. Examples: The ball was kicked by the boy. The ball was kicked hard. The verb in the transitive passive voice always has is, am, are, was, were, be, being, or been as an auxiliary or helping verb.

Transitive active sentences can be changed to transitive passive sentences by making the direct object the subject and putting the subject either in a prepositional phrase or omitting it. Example: The daughter kissed her mother on the cheek. The mother was kissed on the cheek by her daughter. The mother was kissed on the cheek. (Motheris the receiver of the action in all three sentences, but in the last two sentences mother is the subject of the sentences.) 

PRACTICE

Instructions: Transform the following transitive active sentences into transitive passive sentences by putting the subject in a prepositional phrase.

1. The whole state elects the governor.

2. Children from all countries love that game.

3. The critics reviewed the new Broadway play.

4. The pirates hid the treasure quickly.

5. Terri examined the bugs on the tree.

Answers:

1. The governor is elected by the whole state.

2. That game is loved by children of all countries.

3. The new Broadway play was reviewed by the critics.

4. The treasure was quickly hidden by the pirates.

5. The bugs on the tree were examined by Terri.