Causative form please?

Question

translate this sentences in the causative form:

1. tom is going to ask a plumber to fix the tap

2. jill is going to ask mary to sew a dress for her

3. someone has cleaned the carpets for linda

4. jenny pays someone to collect the rubbish

5. you should ask the doctor to check your eyes

6. can you ask someone to repair the broken chair?

7. when will they install your new phone?

8. joe should ask someone to clean the swimming pool

Answer 1

oh my god, never remember doing this in school!  Good luck with it!

Answer 2

To make these into the causative form, you need to use causative verbs. These create the impression that something has caused these things to happen, or that they require something else to cause them to happen. The main causative verbs are 'have', 'make' and 'get'.

So the first one would be,

1. Tom will have a plumber fix the tap.

which creates the idea that Tom (subject) will be 'causing' the tap to be fixed by the plumber.

These websites are quite good for a sort of step-by-step explanation to converting them to the causative form - http://esl.about.com/od/grammarstructure...

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/4...