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The primary goals of this study are: (1) to compare and analyze the frequency of English causative verbs and (2) to explore the cognition of Korean college students on the various semantic features and usage of English analytic causatives. For the first goal, corpus data on English causative verbs were collected from the high school English texts and the BNC respectively. The result showed that there was a remarkable difference in the frequency of a causative verb get, compared with other English causative verbs. To achieve the second goal, a questionnaire was administrated to one hundred Korean college students. It was revealed that most of the questions were given correct answers of approximately 50% to 60%, whereas a couple of questions showed very low accuracy ratios from 13% to 27%. In addition, it was shown that high school English texts did not contain a variety of causative verbs. Finally, it was indicated that students were embarrassed by the subtle semantic differences and usage of English analytic causatives. The results of this study suggest that more authentic English examples including an array of usage of English analytic causatives should be written in high school English texts based on an English corpus in order to enhance the proper use of English causative verbs and that the appropriate teaching methods should be accompanied.