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Lesson 6: Causative Verbs:
Make, Get and Have
Teacher: Srijana, you look pretty today in this clean uniform.
Srijana: Thank you, ma'am.
Teacher: Did you wash your uniform yourself?
Srijana: No, ma'am. I got my mother to wash it.
Make, have and get are causative verbs.
We use a causative verb to say what the subject does through an agent.
Srijana said that she had got her mother to wash her uniform.
It doesn't mean Srijana washed her uniform by herself. It was her mom
who washed the uniform for her. Srijana washed her uniform through her
mother. (the agent).
When the subject uses some kind of force, or authority to cause someone
or something (the agent) to do certain things, we use make as causative
verb
Some more examples:
The manager is getting his staff work during odd hours.
The police will make the terrorists surrender.
The workers have the owner of the factory fulfill their demands.
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