Using makes/lets and cause/reason

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Hello,Can someone give me an advice for following sentences?1) We don't like the manager. He ...... us do all the donkey work for the company.                   A)makes                B)letsI think its A because he doesn't let them much opportunities, otherwise it would be B but I'm not sure!2)Does anyone know what the ...... of the argument was? There is no ....... that it should be kept from me.                  A)Cause                 B)reasonHere i would say first A and second B but I don't know what the difference between cause and reason is at all.

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

Suppose you want to do something. You think that maybe I don't want you to do it. But you ask me and you say "please", and I say it's all right for you to do it. I let you do it.

Now suppose you don't want to do something. Maybe I want you to do it. So I tell you that you have to do it, even if you don't want to. I make you do it.
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Now do you think the employees want to do all the donkey work because they enjoy it, and that they ask the manager if they can please do all the donkey work? If so, choose lets.

Or do you think the employees don't want to do all the donkey work because it is difficult, and that they have to because the manager told them they have to, even if they don't like it? If so, choose makes.

(You chose A correctly.)

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cause / reason: You chose correctly again on this one. Note the common patterns "cause of" and "reason that". The cause of an action is the set of circumstances that brought it about. (Putting a pot of water on a hot stove is the cause of its boiling.) A reason is a justification or a logical motive for something happening. (The reason you put the pot on the stove was that you wanted to boil the water.) Causes frequently involve the question of how one action naturally leads to another. Reasons frequently involve people's motives for their actions.

CJ

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