English In Your Face

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.