INDIAN SCHOOL MUSCAT MIDDLE SECTION SUBJECT: ENGLISH
TOPIC: TRANSITIVE & INTRANSITIVE VERBS
Class VII _____ Name:_______________________ Roll No: ____ Date: ____/10/18 Worksheet Number: 12 I. Pick out the verbs in the following sentences and mention whether they are transitive or intransitive. a) Our washing machine is not functioning well. _______________________________________ b) The farmer’s market is held every Tuesday. ________________________________________ c) We should distribute these circulars quickly. ________________________________________ d) The pilgrims walked up the steep slope. ___________________________________________ e) The chocolate factory invited students to visit its premises. ____________________________ f) Mandira gave her old dresses to a charity. _________________________________________ II. State whether the verbs in the following sentences are used transitively or intransitively. a) Heat expands metals.
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b) Metals expand on heating.
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c) The driver stopped the car.
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d) The car stopped abruptly.
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e) You must speak loudly.
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f) The boy is flying the kite.
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g) The birds are flying in the sky.
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h) The rider fell off the horse and broke his arm. ____________________________________________ i) The woodcutter felled a huge tree.
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j) The explosion sank the ship.
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k) The ship sank suddenly.
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III. Complete the following sentences as directed. a) Baskets of flowers _________________________________________________________________________ (Use the past tense form of ‘keep’ and complete the sentence intransitively.) b) He is painting ____________________________________________________________________________ (Complete the sentence transitively.) c) We _____________________________________________________________________________________ (Use the past continuous tense form of ‘sing’ and complete the sentence transitively.) d) Mr. Sharma’s mobile phone is _______________________________________________________________ (Complete the sentence intransitively.) IV. Rearrange the words and phrases given below to make meaningful sentences. a) doctor/ what/ the/ problem/ asked/ patient/ the/ his/ was __________________________________________________________________________________________ b) patient/ said to/ the/ “I/ doctor, / the/ have/ in/ severe/ my legs./ pain/ ” __________________________________________________________________________________________ c) checked/ patient/ doctor/ his/ the/ and/ prescribed/ up/ medicine/ some __________________________________________________________________________________________ d) “Please/ he/ to/ come back/ if/ don’t get/ said/ the man,/ any/ after three/you/ relief.”/ days __________________________________________________________________________________________ V. The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correct word in the blanks provided. The first one has been done as an example. a) Three researchers by Tuesday b) shares the 2018 Nobel Physics Prize
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c) for inventions in a field of laser physics
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d) which has paved the way for advanced precision
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e) instrument used in corrective eye surgery,
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f) the jury says. Arthur Ashkin of the United
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g) States wins one half of the 9 million Swedish Kronor
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h) prize, and Gerard Mourou of France but Donna
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i) Strickland shared a other half.
VI. In the following passage one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing word along with the
words before and after it. Underline the word you provide. a) ‘Teletubbies’ creator Andrew Davenport come
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b) up a new show for children. Davenport, an actor
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c) and puppeteer as the ‘J.K. Rowling of the
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d) under-fives’, also wrote made the worldwide
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e) hit ‘In Night Garden’. His new series called
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f) ‘Moon and Me’ is a mix puppetry and
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g) stop-motion animation. It about a doll
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h) called Peppiana lives in a toy house with
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i) her five friends Mr.Onions – who begins
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j) every sentence saying ‘onions’ – Collywobble,
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k) Lilyplant, Lambkin and magical character called Moon Boy. __________
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