HAVE + STH + DONE

Causative have
Lourdes Rodrguez

HAVE + SOMETHING + DONE

What is the difference in meaning?
She is cutting her hair.
She is having her hair cut.

HAVE + SOMETHING + DONE

She is cutting her hair.

She is having her hair cut.

HAVE + SOMETHING + DONE

How do we build it?
Subject + HAVE + STH + Past. Part.
in any tense
They are having their computer repaired.
HAVE

SOMETHING

DONE

You should have your eyes checked regularly.

MEANING
If you have something done.
You get someone to do something for

you.
You dont do it yourself.

her house
house redecorated.
She is having her
Someone is redecorating her house.

my house
room painted.
I had my
Painters painted my house.

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 didnt make her dress

herself. She probably paid a
lot of money for it. She had
her dress made.

Complete the sentence.

Steve

Laura

Steve and Laura know how to

ride a bike, but when the bike
has any problem they dont know
how to repair it.
John

John mends their bike.

What happens when their bike is wrong?
Steve and Laura ...

Steve and Lauras bike

Complete the sentence.

Steve

Laura

Steve and Laura know how to

ride a bike, but when the bike
has any problem they dont know
how to repair it.
John

John mends their bike.

Steve and Laura have their bike mended

Steve and Lauras bike

Complete the sentence

John

John knows a lot about mechanics.

He is repairing his car at the moment.

Susan

Susan has had a small accident

and she is at the garage now.

She

Complete the sentence

John

John knows a lot about mechanics.

He is repairing his car at the moment.

Susan

Susan has had a small accident

and she is at the garage now.

She is having her car repaired.

Complete the following sentences.

We didnt decorate the school
ourselves, we

We didnt go to Telepizza, we

We dont clean the windows,

we

Complete the following sentences.

We didnt decorate the school
ourselves, we had it decorated.
We didnt go to Telepizza,
we had it delivered

We dont clean the windows,

we have them cleaned

by Lourdes Rodrguez
Bilbao, Spain