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- They walk on the street.
- Tom’s father has never smoked in his life.
Transitive Verbs : -
How many person have been flown to Singapore? -
The car was stopped in the garage by the driver. -
Horses should be walked for some time after the race. -
A pipe was smoked by Tom’s father.
The verbs such as flies, stopped, walk, smoked above are called intransitive verb because they take no objects. But sometimes they can be put into the active
voice which take no objects, and automatically they can be put into the passive voice forms as has been written above.
2.1.2 Direct and Indirect Object
As has been stated previously that the active voice in which the required verb are intransitive, they certainly have to take objects. If there is only one object, it can
be either a direct object or an indirect one. But sometimes we can find some verbs which take two objects at the same time.
For examples : -
He gave me a novel. -
I showed the policeman my passport. -
The teacher taught us Math. -
Maggie sent me some postcards.
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These four sentences are transitive, each of them takes two objects. In the first sentence, the objects are me and a novel ; in the second the policeman and my
passport; in third the object are us and Math; and in the last sentence me and some passport. In grammar, me, the policeman and us are called indirect objects because to
whom the action are passed over. And a novel, my passport, Math and some postcards are called the direct objects.
Zandvoort, R. W. 1975 : 55 says “In the active sentence corresponding to sentence with an indirect passive, the indirect object usually denotes a person, the
direct object a thing … “ When an active sentence takes two objects, we can put it into passive voice
into two constructions. Usually, the indirect object stands as the subject of the passive and secondly the direct object can be put to be the subject of the second
passive. For examples :
1 Active : He gave me a novel.
Passive : I was given a novel. : A novel was given to me.
2 Active : I showed the policeman my passport.
Passive : The policeman was showed my passport. : My passport was showed to the policeman.
3 Active : The teacher taught us Math.
Passive : We were taught Math.
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: Math was taught to us. 4
Active : Maggie sent me some postcards.
Passive : I was sent some postcards. : Some postcards were sent to me.
Pay attention to the examples above. The first of these passive form “He gave me a novel “is more usual, because the indirect object becomes the subject of the
passive voice. The form “A novel was given to me “, would be used when we need to stress this new subject.
2.1.3 Auxiliary verb “be”
