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                                    87 Mohammad Mahfooz HussainAlam is helping the struggling students solve the complex equations.The struggling students are being helped to solve the complex equations by Alam.Sehrish helped the students solve the clausal ellipsis problems.The students were helped to solvethe clausal ellipsis problems by Sehrish.If all five causative verbs are treated exactly the same and force them into the wrong passive types, the sentences do not just become grammatically incorrect%u2014they completely lose their meaning or turn into nonsense.Disaster Scenario %u2013 1: Forcing Have and Get into Type 2:Remember, Type 2 turns the agent (the person doing the work) into the new subject and makes the causative verb passive. Let's see what happens if we force Have and Get through this rule.If Have or Get are forced into a passive state applied to a person, the definitions of the verbs mutate into completely different English idioms (like being tricked or captured).Although the sentence syntactically correct but the meaning wise it will be a %u201cSemantic Anomaly%u201d (i.e. grammatically correct but meaning is altered).
                                
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