Exercise 1 Draw two lines under each action verb. Circle each direct object. Write T in the blank if the verb is transitive or I if the verb is intransitive. The pilot started the airplane)
1. Wilbur and Orville Wright built the first successful airplane.
2. They built their machine in Ohio.
3. They took it to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, for its first flight.
4. Orville Wright flew the first airplane on December 17, 1903.
5. The winds at Kitty Hawk blew steadily that day.
6. The twelve horsepower engine sputtered. 7. Soon it lifted the 750-pound plane into the air for a flight of 120 feet.
8. Orville's brother, Wilbur, ran alongside.
9. This first flight lasted only twelve seconds.
11. The longest one lastad fifty-nine seconds. 10. The Wright brothers made three mom flights that day
12. Few newspapers carried news about the first flight.
14. Other designers worked hard
13. The brothers made unprovamants on their airplane and their flight techniques.
15. More successful airplanes appeared.​