I’ll have Jack book the tickets for the concert. We use it to emphasise who performed the action: Have + object + infinitive without to = When we talk about instructing someone to do something, we use the construction have + object + infinitive without to. In these examples, we focus more on the subject who caused the action rather than the action itself. The teacher is going to get the students to punish by holding each other’s ears. Mother got Emma to do the chores by promising her to let her play in the park. I’m not good at driving, so I usually get my cousin to get to the mall. Wilson got the maid to clean under the carpet. I hate washing, so I usually get my sister to do it. Again, this indicates that we cause the other person to do the action, maybe by paying them to do it, or by asking them to do it, or by urging them to do it: Get someone to do something (get + person + to + infinitive) = We also use the construction ‘get + someone + to + infinitive’. The doctor will have the nurse take the patient’s temperature. Teacher had Liam write the answers on the whiteboard. I’ll have the plumber take a look at the sink tomorrow. However, this time we say who did the thing – we talk about the person who we asked to do the thing for us: This construction is very similar to ‘ have something done‘. Have someone do something (have + person + infinitive) = We can also use the construction ‘subject + have + person + infinitive’. We have/get the house decked with flowers every Christmas. Would you like to have/get your hair straightened? How often do you have/get your food delivered? Have you ever had/got your photo taken professionally? How often do you have/get your car inspected? They had/got their house rebuilt after the earthquake. They‘re having/getting their house redecorated. William had/got her house painted last week. Have you ever had/got your wallet stolen? Grandpa needs to have/get his eyes tested. He had/got his pocket picked in Piccadilly. Some example sentences of have/get something done Are you getting the car fixed soon? I got the car fixed yesterday. The only part of the structure that we change is the verb to have (or get): I’ve just had the car fixed. Notice that the difference between have and get something done is that have is slightly more formal than get and that we use get more frequently than have in the imperative form.Īlso, notice that we can use the causative in any tense or verb form. Get something done = We can also use get something done (get + object + past participle) in the same way and with the similar meaning to ‘have’: I got my car fixed. What is important here is the end result – fixing and not the subject – who did it? In some way, this using a causative verb is similar to using a passive. However, if we don’t want to bring that someone into the picture, we can say: I had my car fixed. If we paid someone to fix it, we could say: Someone fixed my car. In other words, the subject caused the action to happen, but didn’t do it themselves: maybe they paid, or asked, or urged the other person to do it. Have something done = When we talk about something that someone else did for us or for another person, we use a causative verb with the construction have something done (have + object + past participle).
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