English Grammar: How to use TO with transitive verbs

In this grammar lesson, you will learn more about transitive verbs related to communication. Transitive verbs are verbs that use the preposition “to“ after the verb. For example, “talk to“, “speak to“, and “reply to“ are all frequently-used transitive verbs. But how do you know when to use “to“ and when not to use it? Why is it that you can say “I talked to you“, but you can’t say, “I phoned to you“? Watch this video to find out, and stop making this very common mistake. Then take the quiz! TRANSCRIPT Hello, everyone. I’m Jade. What we’re looking at today is “verb“ “to“. These are... You could call them a group of verbs, and they always need to have “to“ after them, plus they always need to have an object. And the reason they need to have an object is because they’re transitive verbs. And that’s a grammar word that means: this verb needs to have an object, otherwise it’s incorrect and it’s not good English. So we’re looking at some of the verbs that I co