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Ready to put your grammar knowledge to the test? This crossword focuses on causative structures — constructions using verbs like have, get, make, let, and help to express the idea of causing or allowing someone to do something. From subtle nuances to complex patterns, sharpen your understanding of these sophisticated structures and prove your C1 mastery!
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Clues
Across
- 2. from which place or source
- 5. The doer of a causative action
- 10. Untidy and disordered, opposite of tidy
- 11. A person who assists another
- 12. Allowing someone to perform an action
- 15. Describing an ongoing action or state
- 16. To make it possible for someone
- 17. Containing nothing, opposite of full
- 18. A command to perform an action
Down
- 1. Outcome produced by an action
- 3. To hire someone to do work
- 4. In a higher position
- 6. Giving someone ability to do something
- 7. Structure making someone do something
- 8. Verb expressing a caused result
- 9. An irresistible urge to act
- 11. Paid someone to perform a task
- 13. To make something happen
- 14. At which place
Answers
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Across
- 2. from which place or source → whence
- 5. The doer of a causative action → subject
- 10. Untidy and disordered, opposite of tidy → messy
- 11. A person who assists another → helper
- 12. Allowing someone to perform an action → permissive
- 15. Describing an ongoing action or state → active
- 16. To make it possible for someone → enable
- 17. Containing nothing, opposite of full → empty
- 18. A command to perform an action → order
Down
- 1. Outcome produced by an action → result
- 3. To hire someone to do work → employ
- 4. In a higher position → above
- 6. Giving someone ability to do something → enablement
- 7. Structure making someone do something → causative
- 8. Verb expressing a caused result → factitive
- 9. An irresistible urge to act → compulsion
- 11. Paid someone to perform a task → hired
- 13. To make something happen → cause
- 14. At which place → where
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