Causative form
“+ we use have + object + past participle to say that we have
arranged for someone to do something for us. The past
participle has passive meaning, Leo had his hair dyed . (He
didn't dye it himself)
‘She mows the
fawn.
‘She has the lavin
mowed.
Present
Continuous
‘She is mowing the
lawn.
She is having the
lawn mowed.
Past Simple
‘She mowed the
lawn
‘She had the lawn
mowed,
Past Continuous
‘She was mowing
the lawn.
She was having the
lawn mowed.
Future Simple
“She will mow the
lawn.
‘She will have the
lawn mowed.
Future She will be mowing | She will be having
Continuous the saw. the lawn mowed.
Present Perfect | Shehasmowed | shehashad the
the fawn lawn mowed.
Prasent Perfact
Continucus
She has been
mowing the lawn,
She has been
having the lawn
mowed
Past Parfect
‘She had mowed
the lawn.
She had had the
lown mowed.
Past Perfect
‘Continuous
She had been
mowing the lawn.
She had been
having the lawn
mowed.
Tafinitive She should maw | she should have the
the lawn. lawn mowed.
“ing form Tdon't mind Tdon't mind having
mowing the lawn.
the lawn mowed.
Questions and negations of the verb have are formed with
dofdoes (present simple) or did (past simple). Did you have the
computer repaited yesterdoy?
We also use have something done to talk about an
unpleasant experience that somebody had. Last night she had
ter passport stolen. (= her passport was stolen by someone)
We can use the verb get instead of have in informal
conversation. 'm going to get my windows woshed at the weekend.
Note: The word order is very important. Leo had his hair dyed
‘and Leo had dyed his hair have very different meanings. In the
first case Leo arranged for someone else to dye his hair,
whereas, in the second case, he dyed it himself