EF56 Causative verbs

 English Foundations 5/6

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 8:30.

*REMINDER- Monday October 11th is Thanksgiving. No school.

Today’s agenda

• Quiz#3- adverb clauses

• Finish up talking about Rosa and Viola

• Causative verbs

• Fun listening game

Four weeks left! We are way past halfway.

Tuesday

• Test#3- paragraph about Rosa Parks or Viola Desmond

• Begin noun clauses

Thanksgiving- North American holiday, similar to other fall holidays

Harvest festival- reap the crops that you grew

herb garden – community garden- backyard garden- big farm

Thanksgiving -big dinner, family and friends get together

Traditional food- 

turkey- smoked turkey, roast turkey (sometimes dry), deep fried turkey,

MY SECRET- Instant Pot first, brown it in the oven

-mashed potatoes, scalloped potatoes, roast potatoes

- sweet potatoes

-roast green beans

Dessert – pumpkin pie

family, friends close by

-potluck – everybody brings something to share

Thanksgiving – not commercialized, being grateful for what good things you have

Causative Verbs

Causative Verbs

Causative verbs make other verbs act.  They cause actions to occur.

Both of the previous sentences contained causative verbs.

“Causative verbs make other verbs act.  They cause actions to occur.”

The most frequently used causative verbs are as follows:

help, allow, invite, require, motivate, get, convince, hire, assist, encourage, permit, employ, force, compel, tell, ask.

Most comminly used ones: help, allow, invite, convince, hire, encourage, force, tell, ask.

These verbs are followed by a noun or pronoun followed by an infinitive ‘to go, to see, etc’

Examples:

Mei helped me to do my homwork.

I help my friend to fix his computer.

The mother allows her son to play video games.

She allows her pet cockatiel to perch on the windowsill. 

I will invite my friends to come to my house.

I couldn’t convince my father to get a cell phone.

We hired a carpenter to build a new patio on our house."

I was hired to fulfill online orders.

Junko was hired to babysit every Wednesday night.

She encourages herself to be braver.

He encourages his daughter to go to university.

Winnie sometimes has to force her son to go to school.

You should force yourself to speak English every day.

I told my wife to buy herself something nice.

I tell my son to be a kind person.

I told my children to pick up their socks.

I will ask my friend to lend me his truck.

borrow- take

lend- give/loan

Four other causative verbs do not follow this pattern.  The causative verbs help, have, make and let are followed by a noun/pronoun and the base form of the verb (which is actually an infinitive with the "to" left off).

‘help’ can be used two ways:

Mei helped me to do my homework.

Mei helped me do my homework.

I want to help my daughter fix her bicycle. – more natural sounding

I want to help my daughter to fix her bicycle.

make-force

She makes him do his homework.

She makes him to do his homework. XXX

She forces him to do his homework.

I made my son finish his project before he played any video games.

I forced my son to finish his project before he played any video games. force – sounds really strong

let – allow

He lets his daughter use his camera.

He allow his daughter to use his camera.

I don’t allow my dog to sleep on my bed.

I don’t let my dog sleep on my bed.

*Note: help can be used either way.

Review and practice. I would be happy to look at any sentences that you want to show me.

Listening Game