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dido4
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 Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 11:38 pm Post subject: causative verbs (negative form) |
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Anna had her son not to ride a bike.
It's a sentence of causative verb, have.
1. In the sentence, can we put to after the verb, had, in the negative form?
2. Are there any examples like this? |
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Lorikeet
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Location: San Francisco
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| Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 7:12 pm Post subject: Re: causative verbs (negative form) |
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| dido4 wrote: |
Anna had her son not to ride a bike.
It's a sentence of causative verb, have.
1. In the sentence, can we put to after the verb, had, in the negative form?
2. Are there any examples like this? |
I'm not sure what you mean in your question, but the original sentence is not correct. "Anna had her son not ride a bike." is possible, although I'm not sure it's a sentence we would use, as there would be better ways to say it, such as "Anna told her son not to ride a bike." or maybe "Anna made her son not ride a bike." Still doesn't sound too good to me. Sometimes it depends on the story behind it, but you don't need the "to" in the first sentence. |
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