Underline the transitive verbs in the sentences below:

Rosalee’s leather nail bag has eight pockets for tools and nails.

1. Christopher always leaves old newspapers and magazines on the kitchen table.
2. Opossums, Tasmanian devils, bandicoots, and echidnas all have pouches.
3. Amy’s three grandchildren visited her last month.
4. Lead poisoning caused the fall of the Roman Empire.
5. Last summer the Animal Rights League rescued a beached whale.
6. More than 700,000 people attend the music festival each year.
7. Mrs. Lang hides her credit cards in a money belt under her clothes.
8. Dennis bought a sheepskin cover for his bicycle seat.
9. The Schaeffers keep a pot of coffee on the stove all day.
10. Charlotte spent $3,000 on new wood floors for her house.

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