What Is the Passive Causative?

What Is the Passive Causative?

1. Unidad Educativa Paulo VI

   • Andres Tiuma, Mateo Alcivar, Ana Paula Abril, Abigail López
     • 3er BGU "A"

2. Causative verbs (have, let, make) are used when one person is causing another to do something. The passive is used when the focus is on the thing instead of the person. When you combine them together, you are essentially saying someone caused something to be done (by someone).

3. Structures:

   • We form the causative form with have + object + past participle
     • Present Simple
       • We have the cinema painted every year
     • Present Continuous
       • We are having the cinema painted at the moment
     • Past Simple
       • We had the cinema painted last year
     • Past Continuous
       • We were having the cinema painted at the time
     • Present perfect simple
       • We have just had the cinema painted
     • Future Perfect Simple
       • We will have had the cinema painted by December
     • Be going to
       • We are going to have the cinema painted next week
     • Modal Verbs
       • we should have the cinema painted soon