In English, our sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. The nice part about this type of structure is that it lets your reader easily know who is doing the ...
To recall, intransitive verbs are handicapped by their inability to take a direct object. Another way of saying this is that ...
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How causative and factitive verbs work

To first-time learners of the English language, what could easily be its most baffling aspect is its use of the so-called causatives. English uses this strange grammatical structure to denote ...