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How to identify intransitive verbs

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I have an advice: try to add "something" or "something good" as a kind of object after them.

it should sound good for transitive, but somehow "weird" for intransitive verbs:


Transitive:

I ate something
I like something


Intransitive

*I sleep something
*I cry something


this is a way of saying: intransitive verbs can't take an object, while transitive can ! (this this the definition of the difference between them actually)
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