aleksije
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Hello to everybody. My nephew had homework on sentence transforming. One of the sentences was:
My mum cleaned my room.
The teacher told students that they were supposed to transform the sentence like this:
I had my room cleaned.
That made me wonder - don't we use causative to say that some sort of a professional service was done for us? If the agent who did something for me was my mum, it can't be in causative form, or am I wrong? In my opinion, this sentence could be transformed into a passive voice:
My room was cleaned by my mum.
I'm looking forward to your soon reply
My mum cleaned my room.
The teacher told students that they were supposed to transform the sentence like this:
I had my room cleaned.
That made me wonder - don't we use causative to say that some sort of a professional service was done for us? If the agent who did something for me was my mum, it can't be in causative form, or am I wrong? In my opinion, this sentence could be transformed into a passive voice:
My room was cleaned by my mum.
I'm looking forward to your soon reply