Causative Verbs
DEFINITION : Causative verbs Iadalah kalimat yang berfungsi untuk membuat orang lain melakukan sesuatu pekerjaan.

Causative verbs terdiri dari : GAS MAHAL 

1. Get dan ASk = GAS
2. MAke
MAke HAv
HAvee Let = MAHA
MAHAL
L
(TO INFINITIVE)

to + verb 1  
# GET/GETS/GOT

ACTIVE # AKS/ASKED
OBJECT
CAUSATIVE # MAKE
# HAVE/HAS/HAD
(INFINITIVE)
# LET
V1

PASSIVE
GAS
CAUSATIVE OBJECT V3
MAHAL  

Contoh Soal: 
1. I let my brother _____his homework alone
A. Do B. To do 
C. Does D. Did 
E. Done

2. The manager asked the secretary____her report 

A. Finish B. To finish 
C. Finishing D. Finished 
E. To be finish

Penyelesaian NO 1:

causative verb yang digunakan, adalah LET. Nah, karena dasar rumus let berpasangan dengan invinitive (v1)
Maka jawabannya A. "Do".
 

 
Penyelesaian NO 2: 
Perhatikan causative verb yang digunakan, yakni ASKED. Nah, karena pada kalimat menggunakan
kata ASKED, maka gunakan rumus yang menggunakan kata ASKED. 

Dari pilihan di atas yang hanya menggunakan To Infinitive (To + Kata Dasar) adalah
Dasar)  adalah kata "To finish". Maka
 jawabannya B.

3. My mother have that flowers_____by Ani  

A. Water B. Watering 
C. To water D. Watered 
E. Will water  
Penyelesaian: Langka yang paling utama yang harus teman-teman lakukan adalah memperhatikan jenis
soalnya. Jika objeknya adalah benda, maka gunakan rumus passive causative. Jika objek yang digunakan adalah
 benda, maka teman-teman tidak perlu memperhatikan causative verb yang mana yang di digunakan,
gunakan, baik itu has,
have ataupun get. Karena semua causative verb tersebut memiliki rumus yang sama. Maka mari kita bahas soal
di atas. 
 

 
SOAL-SOAL CAUSATIVE VERB

1. Susi made Andi ______ his sandals before he went into her house.
A. takes off
B. take off
C. took off
D. taken off

2. Ani : What a nice dress! Did you make it yourself?

Ati : Oh, I got it made.
The underlined sentence means ______.
A. Ati bought the dress
B. Ati made the dress herself
C. Ati had to make her dress
D. Someone made Ati’s dress 
dress  

3. “Mahmud had the oil of his car changed yesterday” means ______. 
______.  
A. “He changed the oil of his car” 
car” 
B. “He had to change the oil of his car” 
car” 
C. “Someone changed the oil of his car” 
car” 
D. “He would have changed the oil of his car” 
car”  

4. Dedi : “Arya, how do you inspect in our new criminals?” 

criminals?” 
Arya : “I had the special agent _______” 
_______” 
A. investigate
B. investigated
C. to investigate.
D. investigates

5. Agung : Send this letter today.

Secretary : Yes, Sir.
From the dialogue we know that Agung will have the letter ______.
A. deliver
B. delivered
C. to deliver
D. to be delivering

6. The old man wants to get his son _____ him to another city as he is not strong enough to do it by himself.
A. Driven
B. Drive
C. To drive
D. To be driven

7. The manager was not able to finish this job by himself as he was too busy taking care other work, so he asked
me, his assistant, _____ the job.
A. Finish
B. To finish
C. Finished
D. Would finish
 

 
8. Arifa had his teacher phoned for he had got stomachache.
It means that _____
A. Arifa called his teacher by himself
B. Arifa calls his own teacher via telephone.
C. Arifa made his teacher call him
D. Arifa asked someone else to call his teacher
tea cher

9. Because the couple are too busy to prepare their wedding, they _____.
A. Have organized everything for their wedding party
B. Want to organize everything by themselves
C. Have the wedding organized
D. Want to organize their own wedding party

10. The owner of the shop let the beggar _____ in front of their shop.
A. Begged
B. To beg
C. To be begged
D. Beg

11. Mr. Eko gets his son ... him at the office.
A. Take
B. To take
C. Taking
D. Taken

12. Mr. Susilo had his wife ... some noodles.

no odles.
A. Cook
B. To cook

C.
D. Cooking
Cooked

13. Mr. Zahdin gets his car ...

A. Wash
B. To wash
C. Washing
D. Washed

14. My mother ……… to accompany my little sister to the swimming pool yesterday.

a. Has me c. Had me
 b. Have me d. Have had me

15. Dina ……..

……..   wait for her in front
front of bookstore for
for three hours.

a. Makes me c. Making me
 b. Make me d. Made me