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Tkacka15 Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary
We can't have...
"We can’t have Brexit threaten our political and economic system."
(The Guardian.)
Is have a causative one in the sentence above?
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Yes, it is.
- Yes, it is.
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tkacka15"We can’t have Brexit threaten our political and economic system."
(The Guardian.)
Is have a causative one in the sentence above?
It is grammatically a causative construction, though of course the meaning of 'have' here is 'let' rather than 'cause' (due to the influence of the negative can't).
I suppose
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