This document discusses the causative verb construction "have something done". It notes that using "have something done" means you are getting someone else to do something for you rather than doing it yourself. Some examples provided are "She is having her hair cut" (instead of cutting it herself), "I had my house painted" (instead of painting it myself), and "She had her dress made" (instead of making it herself). The document also provides exercises asking the reader to complete sentences using the causative "have something done" construction.

1. HAVE + STH + DONE
Causative have
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2. HAVE + SOMETHING + DONE
What is the difference in meaning?
• She is cutting her hair.
• She is having her hair cut.

3. HAVE + SOMETHING + DONE
• She is cutting her hair.
• She is having her hair cut.

4. HAVE + SOMETHING + DONE
How do we build it?
Subject + HAVE + STH + Past. Part.
in any tense
They are having their computer repaired.
You should have your eyes checked regularly.
HAVE SOMETHING DONE

5. MEANING
If you “have something done”.
• You get someone to do something for
you.
• You don’t do it yourself.
• She is having her house redecorated.
Someone is redecorating her house.
• I had my house painted.
Painters painted my house.
her house
my room

6. Oscar Ceremony
Jane made her dress herself.
Last week she still was working
very hard to finish it in time for
the Oscar Ceremony.
Pe didn’t make her dress
herself. She probably paid a
lot of money for it. She had
her dress made.

7. Complete the sentence.
 Steve and Laura know how to
ride a bike, but when the bike
has any problem they don’t know
how to repair it.
Steve
Laura
Steve and Laura’s bike
John
John mends their bike.
What happens when their bike is wrong?
Steve and Laura ...

8. Complete the sentence.
 Steve and Laura know how to
ride a bike, but when the bike
has any problem they don’t know
how to repair it.
Steve
Laura
Steve and Laura’s bike
John mends their bike.
Steve and Laura have their bike mended
John

9. Complete the sentence
John knows a lot about mechanics.
He is repairing his car at the moment.
Susan has had a small accident
and she is at the garage now.
She …
Susan
John

10. Complete the sentence
John knows a lot about mechanics.
He is repairing his car at the moment.
Susan has had a small accident
and she is at the garage now.
She is having her car repaired.
Susan
John

11. Complete the following sentences.
We didn’t go to Telepizza, we …
We didn’t decorate the school
ourselves, we …
We don’t clean the windows,
we …

12. Complete the following sentences.
We didn’t go to Telepizza,
we had it delivered
We didn’t decorate the school
ourselves, we had it decorated.
We don’t clean the windows,
we have them cleaned

13. by Lourdes Rodríguez
Bilbao, Spain