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Change These Active Sentences Using The Causative

The document contains examples of sentences rewritten using the causative form. The causative form expresses that the subject causes or allows something to happen to someone or something else. For each example, the causative form is used to rewrite the sentence to indicate that the subject has caused or allowed the action to be done to or for them by someone else.

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Change These Active Sentences Using The Causative

The document contains examples of sentences rewritten using the causative form. The causative form expresses that the subject causes or allows something to happen to someone or something else. For each example, the causative form is used to rewrite the sentence to indicate that the subject has caused or allowed the action to be done to or for them by someone else.

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Change these active sentences using the causative.

The hairdresser cuts my hair every other month.


I ________________________________________________________________________________________.

I could finally find someone to fix the computer.


I could _________________________________________________________________________________.

I’m going to take my winter coat to the dry cleaner’s tomorrow.


I ________________________________________________________________________________________.

They have never painted their flat themselves. They have always asked somebody
to do it for them.
They ____________________________________________________________________________________.

My car broke down yesterday. I must ask the mechanic to repair it for me.
I must __________________________________________________________________________________.

I would like to have a swimming-pool in the garden. Do you know anyone who
could build one for me?
I would _________________________________________________________________________________.

Is your eye-sight OK? If not, you should ask an optician to check it for you.
You should _____________________________________________________________________________.

Before I installed a new printer I had asked a friend of mine to upgrade my old
computer.
I ________________________________________________________________________________________.

I wouldn’t like to see tattoos on your arm. You mustn’t go to a tattoo saloon.
You mustn’t ____________________________________________________________________________.

I love wearing earrings. I asked a specialist to pierce my ears when I was 9.


I ________________________________________________________________________________________.

I’m going to see the dentist at 4 pm tomorrow. He is going to fill my wisdom tooth.
I’m _____________________________________________________________________________________.

This carpet looks nice and clean. Have you recently asked somebody to clean it
for you?
Have ___________________________________________________________________________________?
Rewrite these active sentences using the causative.

The hairdresser cuts my hair every other month.


I ___HAVE MY HAIR CUT EVERY OTHER MONTH_________________________.

I could finally find someone to fix the computer.


I could _____FINALLY HAVE MY COMPUTER FIXED_______________________.

I’m going to take my winter coat to the dry cleaner’s tomorrow.


I ___AM GOING TO HAVE MY WINTER COAT DRY-CLEANED TOMORROW____.

They have never painted their flat themselves. They have always asked somebody
to do it for them.
They ___HAVE ALWAYS HAD THEIR FLAT PAINTED_______________________.

My car broke down yesterday. I must ask the mechanic to repair it for me.
I must ___HAVE MY CAR REPAIRED______________________________.

I would like to have a swimming-pool in the garden. Do you know anyone who
could build one for me?
I would ___LIKE TO HAVE A SWIMMING-POOL BUILT IN THE GARDEN_____.

Is your eye-sight OK? If not, you should ask an optician to check it for you.
You should _____HAVE YOUR EYES CHECKED_________________.

Before I installed a new printer I had asked a friend of mine to upgrade my old
computer.
I _HAD HAD MY COMPUTER UPGRADED BEFORE I INSTALLED A NEW PRINTER__.

I wouldn’t like to see tattoos on your arm. You mustn’t go to a tattoo saloon.
You mustn’t ___HAVE YOUR ARMS TATTOOED_______________.

I love wearing earrings. I asked a specialist to pierce my ears when I was 9.


I __HAD MY EARS PIERCED WHEN I WAS 9_________________________.

I’m going to see the dentist at 4 pm tomorrow. He is going to fill my wisdom tooth.
I’m __GOING TO HAVE MY WISDOM TOOTH FILLED TOMORROW________.

This carpet looks nice and clean. Have you recently asked somebody to clean it
for you?
Have ____YOU HAD YOUR CARPET CLEANED RECENTLY____________________?

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