SENTENCE-BUILDING.
Place the following verbs in two columns, one headed transitive and the other, intransitive. Place the same verbs in two other columns, one headed regular and the other, irregular. Build these verbs into sentences by supplying a subject to each intransitive verb, and a subject and an object to each transitive verb.
Vanish, gallop, bite, promote, contain, produce, provide, veto, secure, scramble, rattle, draw.
Arrange the following verbs as before, and then build them into sentences by supplying a subject and a noun attribute to each intransitive verb, and a subject and an object to each transitive verb.
Degrade, gather, know, was, became, is.
A verb may be transitive in one sentence and intransitive in another. Use the following verbs both ways.
+Model+.—The wren sings sweetly.
The wren sings a pretty little song.
Bend, ring, break, dash, move.