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HAVE SOMETHING DONE Carol Tips
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- Language Learning
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Hello everyone! This is teacher Carol Pinho, and here is our new episode of Carol Tips! Remember that this audio tapescript is available in the podcast description!
Today we will talk about HAVE SOMETHING DONE
In English, if I say: I CUT MY HAIR YESTERDAY, I mean I, myself, with my hands, cut my own hair. It doesn’t mean I paid someone else, like a hairdresser, to cut my hair for me.
When I say: I AM PAINTING MY APARTMENT, I am telling you that I am painting the walls myself, using my hands.
Ok! So, Teacher! How can I inform that I paid someone to do something for me?
We use HAVE SOMETHING DONE.
The structure is simple: we use HAVE in the verbal tense that we want. For example:
I have or He has (for Simple Present)
She will have (for the Future)
They had (for the Past)
You should have (when we talk about modal verbs)
He has never had (for Present Perfect)
After HAVE, we use the SOMETHING, which is, in the previous examples, the hair, the apartment or the walls.
Then, we use the verb in the participle form, which is the 3rd column of the verbs
Like in:
I had my hair cut yesterday. (I am telling you that I got someone else to cut my hair for me yesterday)
I am having my apartment painted this week. (someone is painting my apartment this week, not me)
I will have my car washed next Saturday (I will pay a person to wash my car for me next Saturday, I won’t wash it myself)
Lisa had the roof repaired yesterday (Lisa paid someone to repair her damaged roof)
My husband has his beard trimmed at the same barbershop. (He pays the same barber to trim his beard)
We had our shower fixed two days ago. (We called someone to fix our broken shower)
We can use it in NEGATIVE form:
I don’t have my hair cut. I cut it myself.
We didn’t have the car washed last week. It is so dirty!
She doesn’t have the house cleaned, because she doesn’t like other people in her house.
I won’t have my nails polished this week. I will polish them myself.
And, we can also use it in INTERROGATIVE sentences, like:
Did you have your hair cut?
Does she have her nails polished every week?
Will you have the car washed next Saturday?
That’s it! Hope you like it! Follow us on Instagram as well! Search for @carolpinhoefl! See you on the next episode of Carol Tips!
####TAPESCRIPT####
Hello everyone! This is teacher Carol Pinho, and here is our new episode of Carol Tips! Remember that this audio tapescript is available in the podcast description!
Today we will talk about HAVE SOMETHING DONE
In English, if I say: I CUT MY HAIR YESTERDAY, I mean I, myself, with my hands, cut my own hair. It doesn’t mean I paid someone else, like a hairdresser, to cut my hair for me.
When I say: I AM PAINTING MY APARTMENT, I am telling you that I am painting the walls myself, using my hands.
Ok! So, Teacher! How can I inform that I paid someone to do something for me?
We use HAVE SOMETHING DONE.
The structure is simple: we use HAVE in the verbal tense that we want. For example:
I have or He has (for Simple Present)
She will have (for the Future)
They had (for the Past)
You should have (when we talk about modal verbs)
He has never had (for Present Perfect)
After HAVE, we use the SOMETHING, which is, in the previous examples, the hair, the apartment or the walls.
Then, we use the verb in the participle form, which is the 3rd column of the verbs
Like in:
I had my hair cut yesterday. (I am telling you that I got someone else to cut my hair for me yesterday)
I am having my apartment painted this week. (someone is painting my apartment this week, not me)
I will have my car washed next Saturday (I will pay a person to wash my car for me next Saturday, I won’t wash it myself)
Lisa had the roof repaired yesterday (Lisa paid someone to repair her damaged roof)
My husband has his beard trimmed at the same barbershop. (He pays the same barber to trim his beard)
We had our shower fixed two days ago. (We called someone to fix our broken shower)
We can use it in NEGATIVE form:
I don’t have my hair cut. I cut it myself.
We didn’t have the car washed last week. It is so dirty!
She doesn’t have the house cleaned, because she doesn’t like other people in her house.
I won’t have my nails polished this week. I will polish them myself.
And, we can also use it in INTERROGATIVE sentences, like:
Did you have your hair cut?
Does she have her nails polished every week?
Will you have the car washed next Saturday?
That’s it! Hope you like it! Follow us on Instagram as well! Search for @carolpinhoefl! See you on the next episode of Carol Tips!
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