母に七時に(a - 起きて・b - 起こして) 欲しいと頼んでおこう。
For the above statement I chose a - 起きて but it was wrong, why is b right and a wrong?
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Sign up to join this communityGrammatically, both a and b are possible. It is a matter of which situation is (by far) the commoner.
of which the latter is the likelier.