Question

Choose the option that best corrects the transitive and intransitive verbs at the underlined point:
Sugar tastes sweet.

• A. tastes
• B. tastes as if
• C. tastes to be
• D. NO CHANGE

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

NO CHANGE

A transitive verb is a verb that has an object; without the object present the sentence looks and feels incomplete. An intransitive verb is the opposite - i.e, it is a verb that does not require any object at all, yet the sentence still makes sense on its own. In this case, the verb is transitive and the sentence makes complete sense on its own. Thus, there is no correction and so Option D) is the correct answer.