Mandarin · Chapter 26 · Lesson 8 · Grammar primer
Causatives: 使, 令, 让
Two jobs English calls make: a cause producing a state, and a person imposing an action. 让 does both in speech, 使 is the written cause, 令 the literary one, and 令人 + a reaction word is a pattern worth learning whole.
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