The Causative

We use the Causative...

• ... when we imagine a situation about the present.

• ... when we describe the action at the moment of speech.

• ... when somebody else does something for us.

• ... when we want to emphisise something.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1D

Apart from the verb HAVE that we use to build a phrase with the Causative we also use the verb .....

• get

• be

• do

• take

My mum's going to have her hair dyed. Who is going to do the task of dying the hair?

• the speaker's mother

• the speaker

• the hair

• a hair-dresser

Dad has asked someone to do a sculpture for our garden.

What sentence is correct?

• Dad has done a sculpture for our garden

• Dad is having a sculpture done for our garden.

• Dad is doing a sculpture for someone.

• Dad's sculpture is in the garden.

Jen got a friend to design her poster.

Now paraphrase:

Jen............................................................. a friend.

• ....got her poster with....

• ... got a design to her poster with...

• ...got her poster designed by .....

• ... got to design her poster by...

A famous graffiti artist is going to come and paint a school wall for us.

Now paraphrase:

We ...................................... by a famous graffiti artist.

• .... are painting a school wall ....

• .... have painted a school wall...

• .... are going to have a school wall painted.....

• .... have a school wall painted ...

Our school is having built a new art centre next summer.

• Correct

• Wrong

Why dont't you have framed that painting? It's very nice.

• Correct

• Wrong

We're having the kitchen painted today so we'll have to eat out.

• Correct

• Wrong

We 'll have our house .............. by a famous architect.

• design

• designs

• designing

• designed