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He had his door locked the participle of causative forms function as an adjective(what kind of door did he have?)   Is it right?

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He had his door locked the participle ??? of causative forms function as an adjective(what kind of door did he have?) Is it right?

You really have to format your questions better. At first I couldn't understand how anyone could "lock the participle". Running everything together without punctuation makes your meaning very unclear.

"locked" in He had his door locked can be an object-oriented secondary predication, i.e., the door was locked (was in a locked state); that's the state that he had it in. locked> adjective

He had the car ready.
He had the skillet warmed.
They had the television on.
We had all the windows open.
We had the fishing rod balanced on the chair.

"locked" can also be considered part of an implicit passive in a causative construction, i.e., He arranged for the door to be locked (by someone). locked> verb, or more specifically, the lexical verb in an implicit passive infinitive.

He had the car readied.
They had the fence mended.
We had all the windows opened.
We had the television repaired.

CJ

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