CAUSATIVE VERBS

The causative verbs are used to indicate that one person causes a second person to do something for the first person. The causative verbs have, get, make, cause, allow, permit, force, compel, let etc.

We can divide the causative verbs into two parts:
A. Causative without an agent
sub + have/get (in any tense) + non agent (living or non-living)+ past participle (V3) + ...

Examples:
I have my shoes polished.
She gets her clothes washed.
She got him scolded (by the teacher).


B. Causative with an agent
sub + get (in any tense) + agent (living being)+ to + v1 .....
Examples:
I got the painter to paint my house.
She got him to wash her clothes.
I will get you to do my work.
sub + have (in any tense) + v1 ........
Examples:
I have him repair my watch.
She had the painter paint her house.
He has had his friend type all his letters.

Note:
(a) Cause, allow, permit, force, compel etc. are similar to get with an agent (syntactically).
(b) Let and make are similar to have with an agent (syntactically).
(c) ‘Help’ can be followed both by ‘v1’ and by ‘to + v1’.
Example:

My teacher helped me accomplish my task.
or
My teacher helped me to accomplish my task.

Also, Read our other Notes of English for Entrance Exams:

1. Article
2. Connectives
3. Number
4. Concord
5. Tense Use
6. Causative Verbs
7. Conditional Sentence
8. Voice
9. Reported Speech
10. Transformation
11. Gerund / To-Infinitive
12. Sentence Pattern
13. Agreement & Disagreement
14. Inversion
15. Adjectives
16. Embedded Question
17. Illogical participle Modifiers
18. Preposition
19. Question Tag
20. Pronouns
21. Commonly Confused Words
22. One Word Substitution
23. Words of Comparision
24. Specialists
25. Phobias
26. Killing & Killers
27. Graphy Words