Timeline for Diagramming a Sentence with a Causative Verb
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| Feb 9 at 19:41 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | According to new contributor @B Gram, Martha Kolln treats these cases in her book, 'Understanding English Grammar'. See p. 263 on Catenative Verbs. | |
| Oct 7, 2023 at 18:04 | answer | added | edger prime | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 8, 2017 at 10:06 | comment | added | BillJ | I see it as a complex catenative construction where "her" is the syntactic direct object of "made" and the 'understood' (not syntactic) subject of the subordinate clause "want to swim", which functions as catenative complement of "made". Within the subordinate clause is the further subordinate clause "to swim" as catenative complement of "want". We call "her" a raised object since the verb it relates to syntactically ("made") is higher in the constituent structure than the one it relates to semantically ("want"). I doubt if Reed-Kellogg could cope with this analysis! | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 22:45 | comment | added | John Lawler | In this particular sentence, the direct object of made is the infinitive clause verb phrase want to swim (which itself contains another infinitive complement verb phrase). The subjects of both want and swim are the same as her, which is the indirect object of made, and they are deleted by Equi-Subject Deletion (aka Control). A Reed-Kellogg diagram wouldn't have any way to indicate all this, but you can make it up yourself; that's what everybody else does, after all. | |
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| Jun 7, 2017 at 20:25 | history | asked | Paul | CC BY-SA 3.0 |