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restaurant.

live Our cat lived till he was 10. He was living a life of luxury abroad.

wash Have you washed your I washed, dressed, and went out.
hands?

write Write your name here. Kevin couldn’t read or write.

What is the difference between a transitive verb and an intransitive verb?
A transitive verb is a verb that requires a direct object, which is a noun, pronoun, or
noun phrase that follows the verb and completes the sentence's meaning by indicating
the person or thing that receives the action of the verb. The direct object typically
answers the question what or whom:
The kids like pickles.
That really annoys me.

Have they sold their house yet?

An intransitive verb is not used with a direct object. If something comes after an
intransitive verb, that is, in the position usually inhabited by the direct object, it doesn't
answer what? or whom; instead it answers a question like where, when, how, or how
long:
Her car died suddenly last week.

Someone was coughing loudly.

A single verb can have both transitive and intransitive uses:

They are playing soccer.

They've been playing all afternoon.

A transitive verb can also have an indirect object, which is a noun, pronoun, or noun
phrase that comes before a direct object and indicates the person or thing that
receives what is being given or done. Many common verbs can be used with both
direct and indirect objects. In the following examples the indirect object is in italics:
Find her a chair.
Can you read me the letter?
Who gave her lawyers the information?

He's saving Caitlin a piece.