Download Verbs Difference Between Copulative Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

Verbs Difference Between
Copulative Transitive and
Intransitive Verbs
Verbs. A Sentence must have, at very least, a subject and a verb in order to
be grammatically considered a "sentence." In every sentence, the verb holds the
most importance. In the case of the Imperative "mood" (of the four purposive
classifications of mood: declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory
sentence), that is the only word with any actual weight in the sentence. In many
cases of the commanding imperative mood, the verb is the only word on the
page.
Ask it in the Language & Linguistics forum
Here are some examples: Go get your brother. Finish your dinner. Stop. Eat
your vegetables. Shut up.
Here is what is to be understood in these five sentences:
("YOU") Go get your brother. ("YOU") Finish your dinner. ("YOU") Stop. ("YOU")
Eat your vegetables. ("YOU") Shut up.
The subject is the implied "You." The only necessary and gravitational word in
all of these sentences is the verb. The verb states the action in the sentence or
casts the subject an overall "state of being" (mood). Most importantly, the verb
allows the subject to make a statement, and this is the case in every sentence,
whether it be of any grammatical mood. Accordingly, the verb is the most
important word (or group of words) in any sentence.
For sake of this article, however, let’s distinguish between the Copulative (or
linking), Transitive (characterized by or involving transition), and Intransitive
(indicates complete action without accompaniment) verbs.
__________________
The Copulative Verb
Copulative verbs link the subject to the complement, the adjectives or nouns
that refer back to the subject. These sentences do not contain direct objects, but
rather are completed by a complement. Here are some examples:
That dog is stinky. (copulative verb: is; the predicate adjective serves as the
complement)
That dog is one stinky mutt. (same copulative verb; the predicate nominative
or predicate noun, mutt, provides the complement)
That sweater looks good on you.
Good, here, is an example of a complement of a compliment; or even a
compliment within a complement: The noun, Sweater, is the subject. Though the
noun, you, here is an indirect object (of the preposition on), the complement of
the verb looks is the predicate adjective good.
NOTE: With the Copulative Verb and this sentence structure, here is a perfect
determinate: the sentence will retain its meaning if the subject (in this case, that
dog) and the predicate adjective (stinky) or the predicate nominative (one stinky
mutt) can be switched and the sentence will retain the same meaning.
Example: That stinky dog is the oldest in the kennel. Or The oldest in the
kennel is that stinky dog.
meaning is the same
No matter in which order they are placed, the