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Arranging for someone else to do something, as in have the car repaired.
Why you specifically
Cấu trúc causative have/get được dùng khi bạn nhờ hoặc thuê người khác làm gì cho mình. Mẫu câu là have/get + tân ngữ + quá khứ phân từ: I had my car repaired = tôi đã mang xe đi sửa / nhờ người khác sửa xe cho tôi; She got her hair cut = cô ấy đi cắt tóc. Trong cấu trúc này, hành động do người khác thực hiện nên động từ phải ở dạng quá khứ phân từ, không dùng dạng chủ động thường như repaired hay cut phía sau tân ngữ trực tiếp. Ví dụ đúng là I had my car repaired, còn I had repaired my car lại là thì hoàn thành của động từ have/repair và không mang nghĩa nhờ ai đó làm giúp. Với câu hỏi và phủ định, trợ động từ vẫn đổi như bình thường: Did you have your passport renewed?; He didn’t get his phone fixed. Người Việt hay bị ảnh hưởng bởi cách nói “đi sửa”, “nhờ sửa”, nên dễ đặt sai thứ tự từ hoặc quên quá khứ phân từ.
The rule
The causative have/get is used when you arrange for another person or a service company to do something for you. The form is have/get + object + past participle: I had my car repaired, She got her hair cut, We had the house painted. In negative and question forms, the auxiliary changes in the normal way: Did you have your passport renewed? He didn’t get his phone fixed. Be careful not to use an active verb after the object: I had my car repaired is correct, but I had repaired my car means something different and does not express the causative meaning.
The trap
I had repaired my car yesterday.
I had my car repaired yesterday.
This means I arranged for someone else to repair the car. The structure is have + object + past participle.
She got cut her hair before the wedding.
She got her hair cut before the wedding.
Get + object + past participle also means arranging for someone else to do the action, often in informal English.
We had painted the house last month.
We had the house painted last month.
In the causative, the object comes before the past participle. The past participle shows the service done by another person.
He is having fixed his phone now.
He is having his phone fixed now.
Have can be used in the continuous form for a service arranged in progress. The structure is be having + object + past participle.
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