Anyone own R&S 6, 7, or 8? I have a question:

[Michelle in MO]

My youngest is in private school this year. They're using Houghton Mifflin English for English/grammar. She has a grammar test today, so any responses I get here may be too late for me to help her, but I have a question about transitive and intransitive verbs. This will be covered on her test.

I understand that transitive verbs take direct objects, and intransitive verbs take indirect objects. However, her teacher gave her a list of prepositions after verbs which indicate that a certain verb is intransitive in that sentence. I looked up transitive and intransitive verbs in Abeka grammar, which we own, and was dissatisfied with their explanations and examples. They merely said what I already know.

So---this left me wondering: does R&S do a better job explaining transitive/intransitive verbs? Does R&S give a list of prepositions used after verbs which would indicate whether a verb is intransitive in a particular sentence?

If anyone finds anything, can you let me know? I'd like to be able to help her further with this. Also, please let me know which year of R&S you're using, OK?

Thank you in advance!

[MIch elle]

"Lesson Survey: A transitive verb passes its action to a noun or pronoun in the sentence;it usually passes its action to a direct object. A transitive verb w/ a DO may also have an IDO. A transitive verb may pass its action back to the subject."

"Lesson Survey: An intransitive complete verb does not pass action to any receiver, but is complete itself. Some verbs may be either transitive or intransitive complete, depending on their use in a sentence."

"Lesson Survey: An intransitive linking verb expresses a condition or state of being. It has no action to pass to a receiver; it may link the subject to a predicate nom. or a predicate adj."


BTW, I have R&S English 6, 7, & 8 - if you need more help from the other books.

HTH!