English Grammar Causative

Need to get your hair cut You can have your friend do it for you. These sentences both use a sentence structure known as the CAUSATIVE. In this grammar lesson we will look at this structure in both the active and passive forms. Take a quiz on this lesson here: TRANSCRIPT Hi again. Welcome to I m Adam. Today s lesson is the causative. Now, I get asked many times how to construct and use the causative structure. First of all, What is the causative, you re wondering If you have someone do something for you, then you are using the causative voice. For example, if you have the waiter bring you a glass of water, this is a causative. If you have your hair cut, that is a causative. The difference active and passive we will look at that in a moment. First thing we need to do is understand how to construct this sentence structure. So we re going to have I broke it down into little pieces, everything that you can unde