My brother takes his clothes to the laundry.. All of these actions are things that my parents, my brother and I do; we are the people who do the actions.. There are some actions that we
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THE PASSIVE CAUSATIVE – “Have or Get something done”
Look at the next sentences
I dry my hair
I cut my hair
I dye my hair
My brother takes his clothes to the laundry
He repairs his computer when it is broken
He does his own shopping
My father and my mother walk their dogs
They cook dinner in their house
They fix their clothes when the clothes are torn
All of these actions are things that my parents, my brother and I do;
we are the people who do the actions
There are some actions that we do not do, for example:
I don’t develop my photos
My brother does not repair his shoes
My parents do not deliver packages they send
So, because we do not these actions, we ask people to do the actions for us
We get the actions done We have the actions done for us
This is known as “passive causative”
I get my photos developed
He has his shoes repaired
They get their packages delivered
This structure is NOT a tense We can use the structure in ANY tense, but now we will concentrate on
present and past
The rule is:
PRESENT:
SUBJECT + HAVE / GET + OBJECT + PAST PARTICIPLE PAST
SUBJECT + HAD / GOT + OBJECT + PAST PARTICIPLE
We can also say WHO or WHERE we have the things done
I had my photos developed at Sam’s
He got shoes repaired by the shoemaker
My parents had the packages delivered by Fedex
AT is for PLACES
BY is for the people who do the actions for us