Question

In this sentence, is the verb transitive or intransitive verb: "The sun shines brightly during the day."?

Answer 1

Hint: Verbs are words that describe physical or mental acts. Verbs such as be, become, and exist also denote a "state of being." Some verbs can also be used to modify the tense of another verb.

Complete answer:
A verb's action with direct and indirect objects is classified as transitive, intransitive, or ditransitive. The person or thing to whom the action occurs is referred to as a direct object, whereas the person or thing that receives the direct object is referred to as an indirect object. Example: John threw the ball to Sam.

The subject, in this case, is John, and the verb is thrown. The ball is the direct object since that is what was thrown—John performed the action on the ball. Because he received the direct object, the ball, Sam is the indirect object.

Intransitive verbs are those that don't have a direct or indirect object. These verbs are acts in and of themselves. Go, walk, run, talk, and so on are some examples of verbs.

Transitive verbs are those that employ a direct object but not an indirect object. They don't require a direct object all of the time, but they do have the choice. Clean, like, love, detest, hate, desire, learn, deserve, and speak are some examples.

There is an object to a transitive verb.
There is no object for an intransitive verb.
There is no object to the verb "shine."

The word "brightly" is an adverb that modifies the verb "shines" in the phrase "The sun shines brightly during the day."
"During the day" is a prepositional phrase in which the word "day" is the subject of the preposition "during."

Thus, "Shines" is an intransitive verb because there is no object for an intransitive verb and there is no object to the verb "shine."

Note: A verb can operate transitively at times and intransitive at other times, just as it can be dynamic or stative depending on its meaning. Ambitransitive is the term used to describe these types of sentences.