Email may be both transitive and intransitive depending on whether it has an object or not.
It is transitive in the first part of the sentence because it has an object, me. It is intransitive in the second part because it has no object.
Verb
If grammar feels overwhelming, the fix is almost always to focus on verbs first. They carry the action, the time, the mood, and the voice — a single verb form decides whether your sentence reads as past or present, fact or hypothetical, active or passive. Get verbs solid and the rest of grammar suddenly looks much smaller.
A verb expresses action, state, or occurrence — the engine of every English sentence. Most verbs have five forms (base, -s, past tense, past participle, -ing); be has eight; modal verbs have fewer. Verbs carry tense, aspect, mood, and voice.
Transitive and intransitive verb
If you've ever written She arrived the airport (should be arrived at) or He explained me the rules (should be explained the rules to me) — you've hit the transitive-vs-intransitive trap. Different verbs demand different patterns: some need an object, some refuse one, some need a preposition in between. Memorising each verb's pattern is the difference between sounding fluent and sounding translated.
A transitive verb requires an object (She broke the vase); an intransitive verb can't take a direct object (Rivers flow). Ambitransitive verbs work both ways with shifted meaning (The vase broke / She broke the vase).
Object
If you've ever written I gave and felt the sentence was unfinished, or written She arrived the airport (it should be at the airport) — you've felt the rules around objects. Different verbs demand different object structures, and English is fussy about which preposition (if any) joins the object to the verb. Getting it right is the difference between sounding fluent and sounding translated.
In grammar, an object is the entity a verb acts on. Three types: direct object (Sam fed the dogs), indirect object (She sent him a present), prepositional object (She waited for Lucy).
A2 | Elementary | Pre-intermediate
If you can order coffee, ask for directions, and tell someone what you did yesterday — but struggle the moment the conversation drifts into anything abstract — you're operating at A2. Knowing this matters: A2 is the level where most learners plateau because they reach for B2 material too early and burn out. Stay here and your foundations get unbreakable.
A2 is the elementary level in the CEFR framework, covering routine communication and the first wave of real grammar: past simple and continuous, present perfect, basic modal verbs, first conditional, and common verb-pattern rules.
Difficulty: Medium
If easy questions feel too obvious but hard questions leave you guessing, you're probably ready for Medium — the level where most real learning happens. It pushes just enough to expose the rules you don't quite have yet, without burying you in edge cases. This is where steady fluency is built, one well-aimed challenge at a time.
The Medium difficulty tag marks middle-range challenges — typically A2 to B1. One rule per question, realistic distractors, and contexts that require active thought rather than instant recognition.