Walt Whitman is usually called "the father of the free verse". Whitman had to self-publish the first book of poems, Leaves of Grass, with his own money in 1855. It was considered too off the standards of British poetry of the time. 

Even if it is considered one of his greatest books to this day, only the few copies were sold and it received very mixed reviews at the time, especially because of the free verse he used.

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Pick out the transitive and intransitive verbs in the following sentences.

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A transitive verb is a type of verb which needs an object in order to perform an action. Example: "Cynthia bought a bag from Elizabeth". Here, "Elizabeth" is the object.

An intransitive verb is a type of verb which has no receiver of action in the sentence. In other words, it does not have a direct object.

Example include: "The dog ran over the hill"

An object of a sentence is the receiver of action in that sentence.

Therefore, the transitive verbs are:

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The fox jumped into the well

Likewise, the transitive verbs are:

Allah loves us all.
We get up early in the morning.
Ice floats on water.