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1) Konstrukcja HAVE SOMETHING DONE ma znaczenie Passive Voice.
Zlecam komuś wykonanie czynności, nie wykonuję jej sam.
2) Tłumaczymy ją: Dałem np. zegarek do naprawienia.
But in English it is HAVE not “GIVE”
3) Występuje ona we wszystkich czasach gramatycznych i zmienia się tylko HAVE:
I am having my car repaired. / She is having her car repaired.
I have my car washed every week. /He has his car washed every week.
They had their car washed yesterday. Did they have their car washed a week before, too?
We were having our car washed when we saw an accident.
I am going to have my car washed soon.
I must have my car washed tomorrow for Mary’s wedding.
I can have my hair done until this evening.
They have just had their car washed. She has just had her car washed. What has she had just done?
I will have my car repaired soon. Will I have my car repaired by Tuesday?
They had had their car repaired. Why had they their car repaired before they sold it?
Exercise1 ] Complete the sentences:
1. Your teeth look uncared-for . I think you...............................................(them/scale) advice
2. How often............................................................(you/your teeth/check-up)?
3. The engine in my car couldn’t be repaired, so yesterday she .....................................................
(have to/ a new engine/fit).
4. ..................................................................(you/ leaflets/deliver) to your house every day?
5. What are these patients doing in this ward?
Oh, I believe .......................................................(their blood tests/do).
6. Can I see those pictures from your wedding?
I’m afraid not. I ......................................................................... (I /them/ not develop/yet).
7. Why .............................................(she/ her portrait/paint) by a famous artist last year?
Because this is her family tradition.Exercise 2 ] Complete the sentences:
Make new sentences using “have sth done”. Use the words provided in italics.
1. Jill’s coat was dirty so she took it to the cleaners. Now it is clean. What has Jill done?
(clean coat)
........................................................................
2. Tom thinks his eyesight is getting worse, so he is going to the eye doctor. What is Tom going to do there?
(test eyes)
3. Sue is at the restaurant at the moment. A waiter is accepting her order. What is Sue doing?
(accept order)
......................................................................
4. Ann’s front teeth has fractured badly in a car accident. She couldn’t smile so she went to her oral surgeon. Now she can smile again. What has she done? (insert implants)
5. Mary’s flat looks very clean. But she has broken leg, so se can’t have cleaned it herself.
What did she do? (clean flat)
6. I will have my sister’s wedding next week. I am going to be her bridesmaid. I have to look gorgeous. What are you going to do with our hair and fingernails? (do hairdo and nails)
7. Our house is too small for our family so we have decided to extend it. Next year we will have 3 extra rooms. What are they going to do? (build extension)
8. The spruce next to our house is 20 meters tall, but each year we have beautiful lights on it.
What do you do so that it looks so great? (install lights – a crane )
9. The contract was originally drawn up in the French language. Now it is in Polish. I know they do not know French themselves. What have they done? (translate contract)
1. My granny has had fake teeth for 5 years now. They broke last week, and she was unhappy. But I can see my granny now has beautiful smile again. What has she done? (fix denture)
Exercise 3 ] Use the structure to “have sth done” and the cues in the brackets to complete the sentences.
1. I ...............................................(my denture / never fit) by any professional dental lab yet. I always fix it by myself as it is much cheaper.
2. Until now we ......................................................... (our 3 new books /revise) by the Chief Editor.
3. The Prime Minister intends ............................................................ (all Polish teenagers / examine) for AIDS this summer.
4. We believe the ward head ............................................. (the floor/ replace) already. We will finally have antiseptic floor in our ward.
5. Does she bake this birthday case herself or ....................................... (you /it/prepare) professionally?
6. If you ................................................. (this implant /import) much earlier, I am sure your clients wouldn’t have to wait for it now.
7. Her denture really stinks. If she could decide she .................................... (her denture / clean ) by steam cleaner in a professional lab. However her husband is not going to give her any money for that.
8. Your hair looks definitely different. ................................ ( it / do) yesterday?
9. Unfortunately now so young persons .............................................. (illegal drugs/ send) to them by internet and therefore they cannot be controlled by their parents.
10. .....................................( possibility / she/ denture/ repair ) for tomorrow? Or is it too tight a deadline?
11. Why....................................................................... (our university / not a new website translate ) into English last year?
12. She enjoys ......................................(her room/cleaned) by her parents.
Exercise 4 ] Use the words given in capitals to form a new word that fits the space in a line.
1. John's molar was very .......................... so he has to go to the dentist. PAIN
2. I like that shop assistant. She's very ............................. HELP
3. I had to handle my mother’s china carefully, as it was very ............. . . BREAK
4. Ann was eating a very .................. apple and obviously enjoying it. CRUNCH
5. Don't forget to ..................... your shoelaces before taking them off. TIE
6. I wasn't very happy with the hotel we were staying in.
In fact I was totally ...............................
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