Our neighbours were persuaded to turn the music down.
b Verbs meaning 'cause' or 'help'
The crisis has forced the government to act.
This portable phone enables me to keep in touch with the office.
We can use allow, authorize, cause, compel, drive, enable, forbid, force, get, help,
intend, lead, mean, oblige, permit, require, teach, train.
NOTE
a We can use a finite clause after require and intend, but it is a little formal.
We never intended that the information should be made public.
A finite clause after allow, permit or forbid is not very usual.
NOT The university allows that students change their subject.
b We can use there as the subject of the infinitive clause. It is rather formal.
The regulations permit there to be no more than two hundred people in the hall.
c The main clause can be passive.
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