Read the following sentence. Decide if the verb is used as transitive or intransitive. The sun rose over the mountain.

The verb used here is intransitive. An intransitive verb is an action verb, so in this case although the word 'rose' is used before the noun 'mountain', the sentence 'the sun rose' could stand alone. A transitive verb, on the other hand, is an inactive verb that gets done to something else.