The artist only paints the setting sun.Is it transitive or intransitive?

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Mike
Feb 21, 2018

It's transitive.

Explanation:

A sentence is transitive if it has a direct object.
Direct objects answer the question of What? or Whom?
Let's break down the sentence:
"The" is an article
Artist is the subject
Only is an adverb describing paints
Paints is your verb
"The" is again your article.
Setting is an adjective describing the sun
Sun is your direct object that answers the question: what is painted?
Because it answers the question what? it is a Direct Object.

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