Questions tagged [causative-verbs]
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Causative Structures: have + object + ing-form
"The ample supplies have the government urging vaccinations not
just for people at highest risk of dying from influenza, but for
anyone who wants to avoid a week of aching misery."
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Is "have the government urging" a causative…
BtyDrgg
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Why do we use zero infinitives with make, let, have?
When we use causative verbs as in
I asked you to do something
we use 'to do'.
However, we don't say
*I made you to do something
but just
I made you do something.
Is there any particular reason that we use zero (bare) infinitives after…
user295094
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Causative construction
A causative construction is used, for instance, when we have / make / ... someone do something for us. For example,
"I had the painter paint my house".
We could render this passively too:
"I had my house painted",
meaning that I arranged for a…
Arsalan
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Is there any usage of the verb ‘want’ in causative form?
I know that the verbs such as let, make, and have are causative, and when looking on the internet I found out that people generally don’t treat the verb want as causative.
However, if we look at these two examples with want:
People are wanting…
ikarus
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Can someone please explain this version of the causative form? "I'll have you arrested"
As a non native speaker, I was taught to use the causative form like this:
if there's a subject: I'll have her send over the files.
if there's no subject: I'll have the files sent over.
And now I'm confused, because many a time I hear this line…
zoli
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Causative Verb with the verb 'relax' but not 'refresh'
My Chinese student asked me a question.
Why is the first sentence incorrect but the second is fine?
Music can make me REFRESH.
Music can make me relax.
Can you help please?
