CAUSATIVE SENTENCE

         Causative sentence is a form of sentence that indicates that the subject on this sentence causes someone or something to do or to be something. The verbs which are used in causative sentence may have different meaning from their real meaning, depends on the situation.

The verbs that include in causative:

1.      Let

2.      Make

3.      Have

4.      Get

How to use them?

1.      Form causative of “let”

S + let + person + verb + Complement

Example: Lina lets me hold her hand.

Ø  It means that Lina allows me to hold her hand; she may want too.

2.      Form causative of “make”

S + make + person + verb + Complement

Example: He made me massage his shoulder while he was sitting on the chair yesterday.

Ø  It means that he forces me to do that and actually I don’t love it at all.

3.      Form causative of “have”

S + have + person + verb + Complement

Example: I have the dancers dance together.

Ø  It means that I ask them to dance; as the result, they have to do what I want because of their responsibility. 

4.      Form causative of “get”

S + get + person + to + verb + Complement

Example: I get my young brother to study every day.

Ø  It means that I not only force him to study, but I also give some advise because it is good to him.

Causative in a paragraph:

            When I was in Senior High School, I had a friend who was very lazy in doing homework. If he had some assignment, he always came to me and made me do his homework. At the first, it didn’t matter because he was very kind. He let me use his Laptop, even he let me borrow some money to buy some foods or drinks. However, he did it very often and I didn’t like it any more. Finally, I had him do his homework by himself, and gave some advise in which I wanted to get him to stop being lazy.