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Detective Barnaby is dramatically recounting the events of a jewel heist to the press, but his grammar is sometimes as questionable as his detective skills. Select ALL the sentences where he uses his verbs correctly!
The correct answers are:
- The shadowy figure disappeared into the foggy London night.
- The criminal mastermind eluded the police for six consecutive months.
- The suspects fled the country before we could issue an arrest warrant.
Disappear is strictly intransitive and correctly has no direct object. Elude and flee are transitive verbs here, correctly taking the direct objects "the police" and "the country." Steal is transitive, so the ruby cannot "steal" on its own; it needs a passive voice construction (was stolen). Occur is an intransitive verb meaning "to happen." It cannot take a direct object like "the burglars" (the alarm should
MediumB2 | Upper IntermediateObjectPast tenseSentenceSentence and structuresTransitive and intransitive verbVerbPassive voiceHumor
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