4 Responses to “Uppper-Intermediate English Learning Lesson 1 – grammar – Causative”

1. drauziocanellas, on September 16th, 2010 at 12:22 pm Said:

   steve,como dizem ,na Bahia,Brazil,voce e um profewssor PORRETA(BUENO)

2. Alexander, on October 21st, 2010 at 10:38 pm Said:

   Steve, in your lesson as well as in a lot of grammar books the structure have/got something done are explained as something was done by someone other than the subject of the sentence. But watching movies I've noticed a bit different meaning: "someone did that and we don't know who it was". E.g. I heard: "He got that hatch closed". And in this case it meant "He has arranged to close the hatch and nobody knows who did that job". He could do it himself, or as McCartney sings "with a little help of my (his) friends", or he just looked on over beer. We just know that closing hatch was his responsibility.

3. tre, on November 12th, 2012 at 10:57 am Said:

   I cant find the second lesson can u help me please

4. Cynthia, on May 31st, 2013 at 1:43 am Said:

   Your explanation of the use of Causative Verb is very clear and useful. Thanks a lot Steve!

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