Timeline for Girls who I've made [to] love me [duplicate]

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Dec 29, 2022 at 3:47	comment	added	user470503		But I still don't understand if that "to" is needed.
Dec 28, 2022 at 18:57	comment	added	Lambie		Plastic dummies I've made to love me. Think about that for a moment.
Dec 28, 2022 at 18:39	comment	added	tchrist♦		The first question in the duplicate list contains an answer by Prof. Lawler and the second one of his comments that both explain the practice and origin of verbs that take bare infinitives like make, let, have as part of the “grammaticalization cycle”. Sense verbs like see, watch, hear also do this trick of skipping the to the way modal verbs always do, but less lexicalized verbs like want, allow, direct, require do not.
Dec 28, 2022 at 18:28	history	edited	tchrist♦		edited tags
Dec 28, 2022 at 18:28	history	duplicates list edited	tchrist♦		duplicates list edited from Why do we use zero infinitives with make, let, have? to Should an infinitive be used in "the police made everyone to leave"?, Why do these verbs take bare infinitives?, Make us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, Why do we use zero infinitives with make, let, have?
Dec 28, 2022 at 18:25	history	closed	tchrist♦		Duplicate of Why do we use zero infinitives with make, let, have?
Dec 28, 2022 at 18:25	history	edited	tchrist♦	CC BY-SA 4.0	correct error of contraction where it cannot occur
Dec 28, 2022 at 18:21	history	edited	Andrew Leach♦	CC BY-SA 4.0	edited body; edited tags
Dec 28, 2022 at 18:11	history	asked	user470503	CC BY-SA 4.0