Some verbs really need complements, don't they? Remember the direct and indirect object we talked about earlier?
But don't worry, we'll do a little review. So, stay tuned (a):
If we said like this:
Do we like...
We want...
Doesn't it get a little weird? At the very least you might be wondering what we like and what we want. In this way, we are going to present these verbs with a complement, making the message a little clearer:
We like brigadeiro.
We want a delicious ice cream.
Ready! Everything happened as we wanted. But, after all, are these verbs given specific names?
Note that in the first example there is a preposition that appears with the complement, for this reason “de brigadeiro” is called an indirect object. In the second, this does not happen. Thus, we have that “a delicious ice cream” represents the direct object.
As you can see, both verbs needed to be complemented, so they are called transitive, which can be both direct transitive (if the complement is a direct object) and indirect transitive (if the complement is an indirect object).
But we still need to meet another one. So, note:
Smile.
It doesn't take much effort to understand that the message, even though the verb is lonely, was perfectly clear. But this does not mean that the verb cannot contain other information, such as:
I smiled when you arrived.
I smiled the moment I received the gift...
What really interests us is that you understand that there are independent verbs, that is, they don't need any complement to make them clearer. These verbs are called intransitives.
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