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Silak12 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Help needed reagarding active causative?

Hi! everyone.I saw this phrase in the subtitles(english) while a program being run on T.V,which was actually in polish language and I saw this phrase -:Get this thought possess her mind.
I want to know that can we use get/have any non-living thing or thought to do something?
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silak12 I saw this phrase -:Get this thought possess her mind. It does not make any sense to me. Are you sure that you have cited it correctly?

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  • silak12 I saw this phrase -:Get this thought possess her mind.
  • It does not make any sense to me.
  • Are you sure that you have cited it correctly?
  • Maybe this: She had this thought and it possessed her mind.
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silak12I saw this phrase -:Get this thought possess her mind.
It does not make any sense to me. Are you sure that you have cited it correctly?

Maybe this:
She had this thought and it possessed her mind.
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silak12Get this thought possess her mind.
Get this thought to possess her mind.

(Sounds like science fiction or hypnosis.)
silak12can we use "get/have any non-living thing or thought to do something"?
Yes. Well, not any non-living thing, but some. It's easier to write a sentence like that with 'get'
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Very much thanks to both of you for giving your precious time.
specially Calif for the examples,he gave.
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