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Everything about Causative

Aspect of verb grammar

In linguistics, a causative is a valency-increasing operation that indicates that a subject either causes someone or something else to do or be something or causes a change in state of a non-volitional event. Normally, it brings in a new argument, A, into a transitive clause, with the original subject S becoming the object O. Wikipedia →

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📖 Definitions

Adjective Acting as a cause.

Adjective Involving, or affected by, causality.

Adjective Expressing a cause or causation.

Noun An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).

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