CAUSATIVE VERB

 Causative verbs express an action which is caused to

happen.

 Causative structures indicate that someone causes another

person to do something.
 CAUSATIVE VERBS
Make, Have, Let, Get, Help, Ask

 She made me wash the dishes . (Forced)

 My dad let me go by myself. (Gave permission)
 He had the students do the assignment.
(requested/asked)
 She got me to mow the lawn. (convinced/persuaded)
 Engvid has helped me improved/ to improved my English.
(aided)
 CAUSATIVE VERBS CONSIS OF :

GET MAKE

ASK HAVE
LET

To Inf BASE VERB

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 Grammatical Structure

MAKE + O + base verb

e.g.: If clause Main
clause
 The teacher made all the students rewrite their papers

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 Grammatical Structure

HAVE + O + base verb

e.g.:

 Devi had Febri wash her car

 Grammatical Structure

LET + O + base verb

e.g.:
 Our parents doesn’t let us eat lunch

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 Grammatical Structure

GET + O + To Infinitive
e.g.:
 My mother got me to sweep the floor
 PASSIVE CAUSATIVE
◉ S + Let/ Make/ Have/ Get + O + V3

e.g.:
 Tom makes the door opened
 Ali had his paper typed by friend
 Mary got her motorcycle washed
1. The government of china let the greenpeace … their research about the air
pollution in the country
A. is publishing
B. publish
C. publishes
D. to publish
E. published
2. The house of representatives has the government … its policies
A. Explained
B. Explaining
C. Explain
D. To explain
E. To explaining
3. The guest made the bellboy … the luggage.
A. to bring
B. brought
C. brings
D. bring
E. binging
4. When I was child, I didn’t like to do house work, but my mother had my room … before
I could go out to play.
A. cleaned
B. to clean
C. cleaning
D. to be cleaned
E. being cleaned
5. You really must get …. those students.
 
A. the headmaster to expel
B. the headmaster expelled
C. the headmaster expels
D. the headmaster expel
  E. the headmaster expelling
6. Our teacher makes us … four essays a month.
  A. to write
B. written
C. writes
D. write
E. writing
7. My father always makes me …. my own breakfast in the morning.
  A. to prepare
  B. prepared
C. prepares
  D. prepare
E. preparing
8. Elllen made me ... My shoes before I went into her house. She said she wanted
to keep the carpet clean.
  A. to take off
  B. take off
C. takes off
  D. took off
E. taking off
9. What you should do before an emergency occurs is to get your fire alarm … that will
also make you feel safer.
  A. to fix
  B. fix
C. to fixing
  D. fixed
E. to fixed
10. unfortunately, I had my wallet ... In the shopping mall.
  A. to steal
  B. stolen
C. steal
  D. stole
E. to stolen
11. The colonel made the soldiers... In the hot sun for several hours.
  A. to wait
  B. waited
C. wait
  D. waiting
E. to waiting
12. Do you really think you can make me . . . You?
  A. to forgive
  B. forgave
C. forgive
  D. forgiving
E. forgiven
13. I see that you have no time to clean the house on your own so you had better get
somebody … its for you.
  A. to do
  B. done
C. do
  D. did
E. doing
14. The teacher got the students … the first quatrain of the poem to make it easy to memorize.
  A. write
  B. to write
C. wrote
  D. written
E. to writing
15. Instead of buying a new pair of shoes, I had my old ones ...
  A. repair
  B. to repair
C. repaired
  D. repairs
E. repairing
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