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Causatives
Mind map: causatives
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Causatives
- CAUSATIVES VERBS LET, MAKE, HELP, HAVE, GET
- EJAMPLES LET: I don’t let my kids watch violent movies. Mary’s father won’t let her adopt a puppy becausehe’s allergic to dogs. MAKE: After Billy broke the neighbor’s window, his parents made him pay for it. My bestfriend loved Preatty Litte Liars and made me watch every episode of his favorite show. HAVE: I’ll have my assistant call you to reschedule the appointment. The businessman had his secretary make copies of the report. GET: How can we get all the employees to arrive on time? My husband hates housework; I can never get him to wash the dishes! HELP:He helped me to carry the boxes. Reading before bed helps me relax.
meaning
- making something happen or exist : causing something
Use
- We use a causative verb when we want to talk about something that someone else did for us or for another person.
Passive Causatives
- Use
- We use this structure to talk about having something done by another person/thing, especially a service of some type
- Structure
- Subject | causative verb | object | past participle
- How Are Passive Causatives used?
- Passive causatives almost always use the verb have, but also got to a lesser extent. The sentence structure expresses a service you have done, usually by a third person.
- Use
Active Causative
- Structure
- Subject | Causative verb | Agent | Action verb | Object
- Use
- We use this structure when someone causes something to happen, or when that person causes another to take an action.
- How Are Active Causatives Used?
- As has already been stated, causative verbs demonstrate one action happening to another person/thing
- Structure