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A. Frank Will Wash His Car. B. Frank Will Have His Car Washed

This document provides examples and explanations of the causative use of the verb "have" in English grammar. It demonstrates how "have" can be used to indicate that someone will cause an action to be done by someone else rather than doing it themselves. Several examples are given of filling in conjugations of "have" in different tenses. The document also includes some English tongue twisters to practice pronunciation.

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A. Frank Will Wash His Car. B. Frank Will Have His Car Washed

This document provides examples and explanations of the causative use of the verb "have" in English grammar. It demonstrates how "have" can be used to indicate that someone will cause an action to be done by someone else rather than doing it themselves. Several examples are given of filling in conjugations of "have" in different tenses. The document also includes some English tongue twisters to practice pronunciation.

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NEW OXFORD INSTITUTE – SHORT COURSES FOR ADULTS – LEVEL III

The CAUSATIVE ‘have’

Consider the following examples:


a. Frank will wash his car.
b. Frank will have his car washed.
In sentence (a), we are saying that Frank will DO something (i.e. wash his car) himself.
But in (b), we are NOT saying that he will do it himself. Frank will cause the action to happen
but he won’t wash the car himself in (b). He will probably pay someone to wash the car for
him.
A more colloquial way of expressing the very same idea is by using the verb get. For example:
Frank will get his car washed.

HAVING THINGS DONE: STRUCTURE

In the causative use of have, the verb have is the one that shall be conjugated. Fill in the chart.

HAVE + object + past participle


TENSE AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE
Present I have my photos developed.
Simple She
I
Present
He
Progressive
They
Present I
Perfect She
Past Simple We
Past I
Progressive You
Past Perfect I
Future I
Simple They
I
Future of
He
Intention
You
I
Modals He
(must, can, etc.)
You
NEW OXFORD INSTITUTE – SHORT COURSES FOR ADULTS – LEVEL III

PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE: TONGUE TWISTERS

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers


A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Three thin thieves thought a thousand thoughts.


Now if three thin thieves thought a thousand thoughts,

Then how many thoughts did each thief think?

Ed Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not.


So it is better to be Shott than Nott.
Some say Nott was not shot.
But Shott says he shot Nott.
Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot, or Nott was shot.
If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot.
But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott, the shot was Shott, not Nott.
However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott - but Nott.
So, Ed Nott was shot and not Shott!

One-one was a race horse.


Two-two was one too.

One-one won one race.

Two-two won one too.

Don't trouble trouble, until trouble troubles you!


If you trouble trouble, triple trouble troubles you!

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