I had the barber trim my hair.
He made a stranger on the street give him five dollars.
(These examples are taken from The Grammar Book by Celce-Murcia &
Larsen-Freeman, 1999)
On the other day, I edited a material of sentence combining exercises. In this material, original answers were written by a Japanese English teacher and a native English teacher made a comment on them. One correction impressed me:
Original: All of our buses make passengers comfortable.
Corrected: All of our buses are very comfortable.
However, the question was given to teach learners causative constructions. After I discussed with this native speaker, I had to change the question itself and the answer became like this:
Traveling on our buses makes passengers comfortable.
2 comments:
sounds like trouble. brr.
anyway, a little amazed that an english teacher has such a questinable wage. i thought (or had the impression that--the profession was rather "comfortable") the Japanese wouldn't let a "sensei" be a "working poor". somehow, i have made nothing of my ability in English--probably because I know that the common Japanese is an idiot for a "native speaker". frankly, i think my command of the language is far above the average "native".
"Our buses comforts the passengers"?
because "makes comfortable" sounds like there's some gas that relaxes them.
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