Causative ‘GET’ and ‘have’ - PowerPoint Presentation

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Causative ‘GET’ and ‘have’Slide2

Causative

We use a Causative verb when we want to talk about something that someone else did for us or for another person. It means that the subject caused the action to happen, but didn’t do it themselves. Maybe they paid or asked or persuaded the other person to do it. For

example:

I cleaned my house (this means I cleaned it myself)

If I paid someone to clean it, of course I can say : a cleaner cleaned my house

But another way is to use a causative construction. So I can also : I had my house cleaned

In a sense, using causative verb is similar to using a passive. The important thing is that the house is now clean. We don’t focus on who did the cleaningSlide3

Causative get

This causative sometimes used instead of “have” to indicate something that is urgent, this causative ‘get’ is often used in the English language as a less formal language.

1. {Subject

+ get + complement (usually person) + to infinitive

(

Active

)}

2. {Subject

+ get + complement (usually thing) + past

participle

(Passive

)}

Example:

Active



Father

got

Jhon

wash the

car (false)

Father Got

Jhon

to wash the

car (true)

Passive



Father

got the car

wash (wrong)

Father

got the car washed

(true)Slide4

another example

- Mother

got Mary to water the flowers in the garden (

active)

- Mother

got the flowers in the garden watered

(passive)

- Teddy

got the money saved in the bank (

passive

-

Yulia

got her bedroom cleaned (

passive)

- The

boy got his cat to chase a

mause

(active

)

[Get

+

adjective]

Get can also be followed by an adjective. Here are some adjectives that are often followed by ‘get’ :

Angry, anxious, better, big, busy, cold, dark, dizzy, empty, fat, full, heavy, hungry, late, mad, nervous, old, rich, sleepy, thirsty, warm, well, wet,

worse.

- What

time are you going to eat?

Iam

getting hungry.

- I

want to take a rest because

iam

getting sleepy

- I

think I’ll stop working because

iam

getting tired.

- There

was an accident last night, but nobody got injured

- We

can leave as soon as you have got dressedSlide5

Causative Have

We

usually use “have something done” when we are talking about paying someone to do something for us. Its often used for

services.

1.

{

Subject + Have + complement (usually person) + bare infinitive (active)}

2. {Subject

+ have + complement (usually thing) + past participle

(

passive

)}

Example:

Mr.

Hilman

had the carpenter repair the chair this morning (active)

Mr.

Hilman

had the chair

repaird

this morning (passive).

Both of the sentences indicates that Mr.

Hilman

don’t do the repair himself, but he asked a carpenter doing the repairs.

Active 

The

man had his lawyer to change his will

(false)

The

man had his lawyer change his will

(true)

Passive



The

women had her bedroom

clean

(false)

the

women had her bedroom cleaned

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We can also use the construction [

‘

subject + have + person + infinitive

’].

This

has very similar meaning to “have something done”, which

we’ve

already talked about, but this time we say who did the thing – we talk about the person who we asked to do the thing for us .

Example:

- I

had the electrician look at my broken light, the doctor will have the nurse call the

patients.

- The

teacher had the students write the answers on

whiteboard.

We can also use the construction

get [get

+ someone + to + infinitive

’].

Example

:

- She

gets her son to do his homework by promising him ice cream when he’s

finished.

- I

got the cleaner to clean under the

cupboards.Slide7

EXERCISE CAUSATIVE HAVE AND GET

I

washed my

car

I

cut my hair

.

I typed the documents.

I

fixed the washing

machine

I

cut the grass

.

I

painted my bedroom

.

I

repaired my fridge.

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