Education English | English Grammar : Causative | Causative are main verbs that cause people or machines to do things or cause things to change. They are listed below, presented from the most forceful to the least forceful : make, get, have, let, help. Remember that MAKE can be used as causative. In a causative, a person does not perform an action directly. The person causes it to happen bu forcing another person to do it.
| S | MAKE | Someone | Verb Word | |
| His Mother | made | him | take | his medicine |
| S | Make | something | verb word |
| I | made | the machine | work |
GET can be used as causative
GET has less force and authority than Make.
| S | Get | someone | infinitive | |
| Let's | get | Rani | to go | with us |
| S | Get | something | participle | |
| Let's | get | our car | fixed | first |
Have can be used as a causative
Have has even less force and authority than GET.
| S | Have | someone | verb word | |
| My English teacher | had | us | give | oral reports |
| S | have | something | participle | |
| I | want to have | this book | renewed | please |
LETS can also be used as a causative
| S | Let | something | verb word | |
| His mother | let | him | go | to school |
Among the tree other verbs mentioned before, help as the least forceful.
| S | Help | Someone | Verb word infinitive |
| He He | Is helping Is helping | Me Me | Type my paper To type my paper |
The causative verbs forms depend on the tenses.
Examples :
1. I will get my sister saw my shirt (simple future tense)
2. I had Rian bring us the report.
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