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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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why do we use bare infinitive after causative verbs?are there any specific reasons?
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Dear friend, there are no obvious reasons for the use of bare infinitive after causative verbs. If you want to find it out, you'll need to study the history of the English language and find the ultimate reasons in earlier periods of language development. We mainly look at language on a synchronic level on this forum.
- Dear friend, there are no obvious reasons for the use of bare infinitive after causative verbs.
- If you want to find it out, you'll need to study the history of the English language and find the ultimate reasons in earlier periods of language development.
- We mainly look at language on a synchronic level on this forum.
- However, I'd like to tell you that not all causative verbs are used with bare infinitive.
- Thus, the verbs let, make, and have take a bare infinitive, while get needs a to- infinitive, eg, Get them to tidy things up.
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Dear friend,
there are no obvious reasons for the use of bare infinitive after causative verbs. If you want to find it out, you'll need to study the history of the English language and find the ultimate reasons in earlier periods of language development. We mainly look at language on a synchronic level on this forum. However, I'd like to tell you that not all causative verbs are used wi
there are no obvious reasons for the use of bare infinitive after causative verbs. If you want to find it out, you'll need to study the history of the English language and find the ultimate reasons in earlier periods of language development. We mainly look at language on a synchronic level on this forum. However, I'd like to tell you that not all causative verbs are used wi
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