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Darktsubasa Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

"Made him feel" vs "made him felt"

Hello! I have some troubles with tenses and was hoping you can help me.

Which one of these is grammatically correct?

a. She made him feel happy.

b. She made him felt happy.

I searched for "made him feel" and "made him felt" with the search engine, complete with the quotation marks. "Made him feel" is more common with 533,000 results, but "made him felt" results isn't that little with 289,000 hits.

Thanks for your help!

  

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darktsubasa Which one of these is grammatically correct? a. She made him feel happy.

— CalifJim

  • darktsubasa Which one of these is grammatically correct?
  • a.
  • She made him feel happy.
  • b.
  • She made him felt happy.
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darktsubasaWhich one of these is grammatically correct?
a. She made him feel happy.
b. She made him felt happy.

a. She made him feel happy.

It's a causative construction.

VERB1 + noun-phrase + VERB2 ...
VERB1 can be in any tense.  VERB2 is always in the plain form (infinitive without 'to').
They had him write a
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Only A is correct. The verb 'make' here needs to be followed by the infinitive form, ie feel.


All the examples of B that I looked at seem to be written by non-native speakers who do not have good English.

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