Using causative verbs
Hi all,
Causative verbs to me are: make, let, have, help and get.
They all get a direct object and the verb after the object (if it's a full-infinitive) comes in bare infinitive form. It's correct for all of them except "get". That is, get has no specific rule as in other ordinary verbs but has the meaning of causing in its causative form sentence.
Do you, too, think like above?
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"Get” as a catenative verb belongs semantically with the verbs of causation. Like "have" it only occurs in the complex construction -- the one with an intervening NP, as in “ I got them to talk ”; I got my car repaired; I had them repair may car. Gerund-participial complements are also possible : I got them working; I had them eating out of my hand.
- "Get” as a catenative verb belongs semantically with the verbs of causation.
- Like "have" it only occurs in the complex construction -- the one with an intervening NP, as in “ I got them to talk ”; I got my car repaired; I had them repair may car.
- Gerund-participial complements are also possible : I got them working; I had them eating out of my hand.
- The subordinate clauses that follow “get” and "have" are catenative complements, and the intervening noun phrases “them” and “my car” are objects.
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"Get” as a catenative verb belongs semantically with the verbs of causation. Like "have" it only occurs in the complex construction -- the one with an intervening NP, as in “I got them to talk”; I got my car repaired; I had them repair may car.
Gerund-participial complements are also possible: I got them working; I had them eati
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