I do not understand verb patterns very well but I tried to answer these, are they right?

Question

Choose between: Transitive active, Transitive passive, intransitive linking, amd Intransitive Complete 

A. In the midst of the Category 5 hurricane, Bill and Sue remained calm.

intransitive linking

B. The high school counselor has talked to Sue's niece all semester about applying for college.

transitive active

C. Bill will call a taxi to take him to his parents' house for Thanksgiving dinner.

transitive active

D. The entire dinner was prepared before the arrival of any of the guests.

transitive passive

E. The second-graders had been told fairy tales of princes and princesses, of heroes and villains.

transitive passive

Answer 1

The importance of knowing how to diagram sentences was a nerve-wracking and popular exercise in grandmother's schoolhouse of 1950's.during the television days of "I Love Lucy."

Today, we have sentence patterns; and the grammar exercises are simplified. There are no worries; just do these simple steps.

The task is to eliminate preposition phrases.

Omit the preposition.

The preposition is to find out where your cat went.

Examples:

under a table, under the bed, under the desk

The 1st time is under

a table ---are the parts of the phrase

Try finding a location where an animal would go: up a tree or across the road or underneath the rock.,

Then analyze transitive and intransitive. Transitive means Direct Object

intransitive means no direct object. Theresa is eating. Intransitive There is no direct object/ Theresa Subject

+ Verb is eating.

I eat cake. Subject( I) Transitive Active Verb (eat) Direct Object (cake)

Answer 2

Yes, these are correct! You seem to have a strong understanding of verb forms.

I have provided the following definitions for these verb forms so that you can hopefully remember and use them more easily.

1. Transitive - a doer acts upon an object
2. Active - the subject is the doer
3. Passive - the subject is the object
4. Intransitive - a doer acts, but not upon an object
5. Linking - the subject is "linked" to a descriptor
6. Complete - the subject "completes" an action

A common example of "intransitive complete" is the sentence, "The dog jumped over the fence." The dog completes the action of jumping, but the jump is not "upon" the fence.

Answer 3

Yes they appear to be all correct.

Remember transitive verbs are verbs that have subjects or objects that receive the action and intransitive have no receiver of the action.