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Can this verb go passive?

Exercise and reference answers

Items
  1. Item
    A transitive verb
    Category
    Can go passive
  2. Item
    A verb that takes an object
    Category
    Can go passive
  3. Item
    An intransitive verb
    Category
    Cannot go passive
  4. Item
    A verb with no object
    Category
    Cannot go passive
Categories
  1. Item
    Can go passive
  2. Item
    Cannot go passive

Explanation

Only a verb with an object has something to promote. Source: An English Grammar, Baskervill and Sewell (1896), sections 209-211.
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