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The document discusses the causative structure in English using "have" and "get" when asking someone else to do something. It provides examples of the active and passive causative forms using "have" and "get" in different tenses. It also discusses the interrogative and imperative forms and additional uses with modal verbs or without the causative verb.

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Causative

The document discusses the causative structure in English using "have" and "get" when asking someone else to do something. It provides examples of the active and passive causative forms using "have" and "get" in different tenses. It also discusses the interrogative and imperative forms and additional uses with modal verbs or without the causative verb.

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CAUSATIVE

By

Syamsu Alam, S.Pd.I


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Causative
We use the structure have/get something done when we want to say that we ask someone else to do something for us.

Active
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Passive

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Active Causative
(ask people to do something) Mary has George climb the tree Subject + have/has + someone + V1 (Present participle) They get me to wash the clothes Subject + Get + someone + to infinitive
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Passive Causative
(ask something to be done)

My father got/had his hair cut.


S + Have/get + Object + V3 by agent (optional).
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Have/get/make
Have : show that you ask someone to do something. Get : to show the idea that someone convinces another person to do something. Make: to show the idea 'to force someone to do something'.
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Have/get/make (example)
Have : They had their house painted blue (used for formal) Get : she got him to dig away the snow (persuade

him to dig) Make: The mother made her kid his homework done. (force her kid to do the homework)
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Tenses
Tense
Present Simple Past Simple Present Continuous Past Continuous Present Perfect Past Perfect Will Must be going to
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have/get something done


I have/get my hair cut. I had/got my hair cut. I'm having/getting my hair cut. I was having/getting my hair cut. I have had my hair cut. I had had my hair cut. I will have my hair cut. (advise) I must have my hair cut. I'm going to have my hair cut.

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Interrogative/Imperative
Interrogative form: do you have your windows cleaned every month? Imperative form: Get your hair cut! (have, and make no imperative form).
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Additional
Need and want may be used in passive causative sentences. In some cases, the passive causative verb (had / got) may be dropped altogether. I need to have the car tuned up. Modal auxiliary verbs may be used with the causative sentence structure. Most often, modals express a suggestion by the speaker, such as: You should have your hair cut.

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Sources
http://www.headsupenglish.com/index.php?opt ion=com_content&task=view&id=270&Itemid =94 http://www.learnamericanenglishonline.com/Gr een%20Level/G16%20Unusual%20Uses%20of %20Get%20and%20Have.html a practical English Grammar, A.J Thomson, A.V Martinet, oxford 122. )

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