🔴Causation Verbs🔴

The use of the causative verbs "let," "make," "have," and "get."
✳️Let

[let + person + verb]
♦️This construction means "to allow someone to do something."

♦️John let me drive his new car.
♦️Will your parents let you go to the party?
♦️I don't know if my boss will let me take the day off.

✳️Make

[make + person + verb]

♦️This construction means "to force someone to do something."

♦️My teacher made me apologize for what I had said.
♦️Did somebody make you wear that ugly hat?
♦️She made her children do their homework.

✳️Have

[have + person + verb]

♦️This construction means "to give someone the responsibility to do something."

♦️Dr. Smith had his nurse take the patient's temperature.
♦️Please have your secretary fax me the information.
♦️I had the mechanic check the brakes.

✳️Get

[get + person + to + verb]

♦️This construction usually means "to convince to do something" or "to trick someone into doing something."

♦️Susie got her son to take the medicine even though it tasted terrible.
How can parents get their children to read more?
♦️The government TV commercials are trying to get people to stop smoking.
Get vs. Have

✳️Sometimes "get someone to do something" is interchangeable with "have someone do something," but these expressions do not mean exactly the same thing.

♦️I got the mechanic to check my brakes.
♦️At first the mechanic didn't think it was necessary, but I convinced him to check the brakes.
♦️I had the mechanic check my brakes.
♦️I asked the mechanic to check brakes.