Causative Verbs Exercise-1

1. Sally made me —- my shoes before I went into her house. She said she wanted to keep the carpet clean.

a) take off
b) to take off

Answer: a) take off

Sally made me take off my shoes before I went into her house. She said she wanted to keep the carpet clean.

2. I see that you have no time to clean the house on your own so you had better get somebody —- it for you.

a) done
b) to do

Answer: b. to do

I see that you have no time to clean the house on your own, so you had better get somebody to do it for you.

3. What you should do before an emergency occurs is to get your fire alarm —- that will also make you feel safer.

a) to fix
b) fixed

Answer: b) fixed

What you should do before an emergency occurs is to get your fire alarm fixed, that will also make you feel safer.

4. She had to have her phone number —- because she was receiving obscene calls from a stranger.

a) change
b) changed

Answer: b) changed

She had to have her phone number changed because she was receiving obscene calls from a stranger.

5. Her dress was too long, so she had it —-.

a) shorten
b) shortened

Answer: b) shortened

Her dress was too long, so she had it shortened.

6. You’d better have a plumber —- the leak in the bathroom.

a) repair
b) repaired

Answer: a) repair

You’d better have a plumber repair the leak in the bathroom.

7. Instead of buying a new pair of shoes, I had my old ones —-.

a) repair
b) repaired

Answer: b) repaired

Instead of buying a new pair of shoes, I had my old ones repaired.

8. I got everyone in the family —- Mary’s birthday card before I sent it to her.

a) sign
b) to sign

Answer: b) to sign

I got everyone in the family to sign Mary’s birthday card before I sent it to her.

9. I didn’t have any time so I had my sister —- my paper last night.

a) type
b) to type

Answer: a) type

I didn’t have any time, so I had my sister type my paper last night.

10. The teacher got the students —- the first quatrain of the poem to make it easy to memorize.

a) write
b) to write

Answer: b) to write

The teacher got the students to write the first quatrain of the poem to make it easy to memorize.

11. Regular repetition makes one —- new words easily.

a) learn
b) to learn

Answer: a) learn

Regular repetition makes one learn new words easily.