CHAPTER 7

CAUSATIVE
Digunakan dalam kalimat yang mengandung pengertian bahwa subjek dalam kalimat ini tidak
melakukan suatu pekerjaan. Pola causative ada yang berbentuk aktif dan ada yang berbentuk pasif. Kata
kerja yang digunakan pada pola ini adalah have dan get.

Keterangan :
Have, has, dan had pada kalimat causative bukan sebagai auxillary verbs tetapi berfungsi sebagai verba
yang artinya “menyuruh”. Selain have dan variasi bentuknya, pada kalimat causative jenis ini juga
terkadang menggunakan make atau made.
Pola I : S + have/has/had + O [Person] + infinitive
Causative “have” dalam bentuk aktif :
o I have someone clean my room.
o He had someone clean my room.
o She has him repair her car.

Pola II : S + have/has/had + O [Thing] + V3

Causative “have” dalam bentuk pasif :
o I have my room cleaned by someone.
o He had my room cleaned by someone.
o She has him to repair her car.

Pola III : S + get + O [Person] + to infinitive

Causative “get” dalam bentuk aktif :
o I get someone to clean my room.
o She got him to repair her car.

Pola IV : S + get + O [Thing] + V3

Causative “get” dalam bentuk pasif :
o I get my room cleaned by someone.
o She got her car repaired by him.

Kesimpulan :

Pada pembentukannya, kalimat causative dengan have atau get pada bentuk pasif polanya sama, tetapi
pada bentuk aktif berbeda.

Exercises:
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

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

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

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