causative – English Grammar Profiler

A causative or causal verb indicates that some person or thing makes or helps make something happen. Causatives show a power relationship between the causer and the doer. The following verbs: make, cause, allow, help, have, enable, keep, hold, let, force, and require

are generally followed by an object and another verb form such as an infinitive or a participle.

The verb ’cause’ can be followed by a noun phrase and a to-infinitive to express the idea that the noun phrase is the reason why the to-infinitive action happens. For example:

The storm caused the power to go out. The accident caused him to lose his job.

Her illness caused her to miss work.

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To understand ‘make + object + adjective’ let’s see how there are many ways to say for example: ‘you make me happy.‘ The meaning is the same as: ‘I am happy because of you.’ ‘You cause me to be happy.’ ‘You are the reason I am happy.’ The grammar of ‘you make me happy’ “you

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In the English Grammar Profile, point 52 at B1 in ADJECTIVES/position is defined as: adjectives as object complement after ‘make’. *However, this clashes with B2: where ‘it’ introduces a reference. *Note, if you capitalise your search term such as MAKE on iWeb, it will give you all forms of the word. A search in iWeb

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Point 95 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: ‘ ‘it’ as an object with ‘make’ to introduce something the speaker or writer is going to refer to. The 2 examples in the EGP follow the structure  make|makes it _jj for *although the following adjective might get incorrectly tagged as an adverb.   1

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