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viernes, 21 de octubre de 2016

Patterns with have

You can use have to talk about results or arrangements.

Results

You can use have + someone/something + present participle to say:

1) that you encouraged someone to do something:

    In the end I had them all dancing and singing.

2) that you managed to get a machine or an animal to do something:

    I had the computer working five hours after I'd starting to work on it.
    I had the parrot talking in no time.

3) that something happened as a consequence of an action:

    The party was a bit noisy; we had the police knocking on the front door 
    at one point.

Arrangements

You use the pattern have + someone/something + infinitive to say you have asked someone to do something for you.

    I had my neighbours look after the dog last weekend.
    She had someone come round to give her a quote for the decorating work.