I recently had my hair cut and some students said: «Hey! You cut your hair!». But as I said, I had my hair cut, I didn’t cut it myself. So I explained to them the use of the structure «have something done», which we call «causative have», and the difference with what they said I had done.
In this video post, I explain the how to use this structure and I outline the main contexts in which you can find this structure. So press play and start learning! 🙂
Here’s a summary of what I explain in the video.
The causative have has this structure: have something done; where «done» is the past participle of a transitive verb. We can also use the verb «get» instead of have. Let’s see the main contexts:
1. When we ask someone to do something for us
I had my house painted last month.
I should go to the hairdresser’s to have my hair cut.
I will probably get my passport renewed before the summer.
2. When something bad happens to us and someone else does it
She had her wallet stolen in the train station.
I had my car destroyed by some punks the other night.
3. When you have an accident for which you are responsible
In this case we can only use «get», not «have».
I got my fingers trapped with the car door.
He always gets his T-shirts stained with tomato sauce.
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