When a verb is the subject of a sentence, it needs to be in the -ing form. Often, the subject is the first word in a sentence ...
To recall, intransitive verbs are handicapped by their inability to take a direct object. Another way of saying this is that a subject cannot perform the action of intransitive verbs on a direct ...
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How causative and factitive verbs work

To first-time learners of the English language, what could easily be its most baffling aspect is its use of the so-called causatives. English uses this strange grammatical structure to denote ...