Thanks to visit codestin.com
Credit goes to www.scribd.com

Scribd
Upload
35 views2 pages

Causative - Have Something Done1

The document provides examples of replacing underlined phrases with causative structures using 'have something done'. Each example shows the original sentence, and a rephrased sentence using a causative structure with 'have' and an object followed by a past participle verb. The document then provides a short reading and examples of forming causative structures from sentence prompts.

Uploaded by

Cute Cupcake
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
35 views2 pages

Causative - Have Something Done1

The document provides examples of replacing underlined phrases with causative structures using 'have something done'. Each example shows the original sentence, and a rephrased sentence using a causative structure with 'have' and an object followed by a past participle verb. The document then provides a short reading and examples of forming causative structures from sentence prompts.

Uploaded by

Cute Cupcake
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

Replace the phrase underlines with the structure have something done.

1. I didn’t recognise Sheila. The hairdresser´s dyed her hair.

She had her hair dyed by the hairdresser.

2. I've been getting a lot of annoying phone calls, so the telephone company is going to change my
number.

I am going to get my number changed by the telephone company.

3. Gabrielle broke her leg six weeks ago but she´s much better now. In fact the doctors will be taking
the plaster off tomorrow.

The plaster will be taken off tomorrow by the doctors.

4. Since Ron made a lot of money, he´s not content with this little cottage, so an architect´s designed
him a fine new house.

Ron got his new fine house designed by architect.

5. This room gets too hot when the sun shines so I´m getting someone to fit blinds on the windows.

The blinds on the windows are going to be fit.

6. I heard that Mrs. Green didn’t trust her husband so she hired a detective to follow him.

A detective was hired to follow him by his wife.

7. We don't really know what Shakespeare looked like. I wish he had asked someone to paint his
portrait before died.

Nobody was asked to paint his portrait before he died.

8. My sister had always been self-conscious about her nose so she decided to go to a clinic for an
operation which will straighten it.

Her nose will be straightened.

Read the situations and make sentences using a causative structure.

There was a bank robbery at the bank this morning.

lie / the staff / make/ The robbers / floor.

The robbers made the staff lie on the floor.

It was the first time she asked her mother to comb her hair.

never /hair/ comb/ She/ before/ have.

She never had her hair comb before.

Sam´s parents always tell him to clean his boots.

Shoes/ always/ make / He/ clean.

He is always told to make his shoes clean.


I couldn’t repair my car by myself and needed it last week.

repair / mechanic/ it /get/ I/ have to.

I had to get mechanic to repair it.

The cruel teachers don´t allow the students to drink or take drugs.

not let / the students/ drink or take drugs / The cruel teachers.

The cruel teachers don´t let their students drink or take drugs.

You might also like