Causative Form Exercises
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D. CAUSATIVE FORM 1. He always waters our garden when we are on holiday. We always have our garden watered when we are on holiday. 2. She will hire someone to paint her house. 3. He asked the waiter to clean the table. 4. Someone stole my wallet on the bus. 5. We must ask someone to change the flat tyre. 6. Someone is making a wedding cake for them.
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In this exercise, we're going to practice using the causative form. This structure is used when we arrange for someone else to do something for us, or when something happens to us.
Understanding the Causative Form
The general structure for the causative is: subject, followed by the verb 'have' in the correct tense, then the object, and finally the past participle of the main verb.
Let's look at the third sentence: 'He asked the waiter to clean the table.' First, identify the tense. 'Asked' is in the past simple. Therefore, we use the past simple of 'have', which is 'had'.
Sentence 3
Original: He asked the waiter to clean the table.
* Tense: Past Simple -> had
Now we follow our structure. The subject stays 'He', the object is 'the table', and the verb 'clean' becomes the past participle 'cleaned'. So the sentence is: 'He had the table cleaned'.
Moving on to number four: 'Someone stole my wallet on the bus.' This is an example of an unfortunate event. It's still in the past simple tense because of the word 'stole'.
Sentence 4
Original: Someone stole my wallet on the bus.
* Tense: Past Simple -> had
Applying the causative structure, the person affected is 'I', the object is 'my wallet', and the past participle of 'stole' is 'stolen'. The final sentence is: 'I had my wallet stolen on the bus'.
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