Term of Art: Causative

 “Causative: Indicating causation by the sentence subject, e.g., ‘He sets them down,”’ ‘They felled two trees,’ The suffix ‘-en’ in ‘widen.’”

Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.

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