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Intransitive Verbs of Complete and Incomplete Predication

SET-1 SET-2

I am a student. The child cried.
Hungry wolves are voracious. The child cried bitterly.

The royals have many mansions. The boy walks.
My father has a laptop. The rain falls heavily.

Observe the predicate and look at the verbs used in the Set-1. Certain intransitive verbs need a
word(Complement) or phrase to complete the predicate and make the sentence meaningful.

You may need to learn verbs of incomplete predication.

Check out this
list--Is, am, are,
appear,
become, blow,
grow, fly, feel,
remain, set,
scene, smell,

sound, taste
,turn, was
,where ,has

have, had etc.

‘Hungry wolves are voracious’. Here the verb ‘are’ require the use of other word in order to form

complete predicate.

Verbs which thus require the help of other words to form predicates are called verbs of INCOMLETE
PREDICATION. Examples are: is, am, are, was, were, become, look, seem, appear, taste, smell, grow,
turn etc.

One easy trick to find Read the
sentence until
whether the verb is
intransitive verb of the verb…
incomplete or complete
predication

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