I appreciate the example from Johanna, but this agrees with my
suggestion about the problem that causatives create for speakers of English.

Johanna Rubba wrote:

>I don't have time right now to engage in this interesting discussion--I
>just wanted to add some grist to the mill. Recall Bill Clinton's
>introduction of 'grow the economy'. Grow already had a transtive sense,
>of course, but it had not been applied to abstractions.
>
The notion of "grow the economy" in the sense that Johanna is citing is
a causative sense.

We need to cause the economy to grow.

Bob Yates, Central Missouri State University

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