Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
CAUSATIVE FORM
1,046
CAUSATIVE FORM
It shows that somebody or something is indirectly responsible for an action. The subject doesn't perform the action itself, but causes someone or something else to do it instead. The causative verbs are:
have, get, make and let.
This structure is used when we do not do something ourselves, but we arrange for someone else (usually an expert) to do it for us. It is also used to express an accident or misfortune that happened to us.
*I had my wallet stolen. (Someone stole my wallet.)
In informal language we can use get instead of have.
FORM
have/get something done
I have/get my hair cut.
I had/got my hair cut.
I'm having/getting my hair cut.
I was having/getting my hair cut.
I have had my hair cut.
I had had my hair cut.
I will have my hair cut.
I must have my hair cut.
I'm going to have my hair cut.
Have my hair cut.
I needed to have my hair cut.
I remember having my car fixed.
Tense
Present Simple ----------
Past Simple --------------
Present Progressive----
Past Progressive--------
Present Perfect Simple
Past Perfect Simple ----
Future will-----------------
Modal Verbs -------------
Future going to----------
Imperative ----------------
Present Infinitive -------
-ing form ------------------
The structure have someone do something means ask someone to do something.
+ have + complement + verb in simple form
I had my brother feed the dog all week.
(My brother fed the dog.)
MAKE is a stronger command than have or get and means to force someone to do something.
The structure get someone to do something means persuade someone to do something.
LET
This word requests permission or assistance from another person.
*Let means allow or permit.
+ make + complement + verb in simple form
+ get + complement + verb in infinitive
:) + let + complement + verb in simple form
I got her to let me copy her homework. (She let me copy her homework)
My boss makes me finish the daily report each day before I go home.
My boss let me leave early from work.