Using Causatives

Head on over to englishinyourface.blog for a transcript of this podcast.

Also see my presentation on causatives

Let me give you a road map of what we are going to talk about today.

* First we will define what a causative is

* How it differs from other languages

* The terminology we’ll use to describe each element of a causative sentence, namely the subject, main verb, the agent, the causative verb, and the object.

* There are three causatives, and today I will talk about:

* The different sentence constructions of causatives.

* How the main verbs and the causative verbs changes for each structure.