Have something done - how to use the causatives HAVE and GET in the passive

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There are two ways to clean your kitchen floor. One is to clean it yourself.
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And the other is to have it cleaned for you.
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We can clean our teeth ourselves, but we can
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also go to the dentists to have them cleaned. Someone else performs the service.
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It's the same with your hair. You can do it yourself, or you can go to the hairdressers
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and have it done for you. So let's look at these structures: doing it
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yourself, having it done for you. We've got the verb 'have', the object, and
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then the third part of the verb. You can change 'have' to whatever tense you
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need. Don't confuse this structure with the present perfect.
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What's happening here is that we're talking about a service that someone else is performing
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for us. And something else. In spoken English, we
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often use 'get' instead of 'have'. It means the same thing.
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Let's look at some more examples. Ready? I'm getting hungry. Are you? What shall we
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have for lunch? Let's get a pizza delivered. Love it! Good idea.
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Sorry, it's hard to hear you. We're having
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some work done on our heating system. Carter's dirty, Jay. Are you going to give
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him a bath? I think I'll take him to the pet store and
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have him washed. Hmph! Jay, there are nearly fifty thousand miles
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on the clock. I know, we have to get it serviced. Yeah.
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Do you have the contract? Yes. What does it say?
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I don't know. It's in Hungarian. Then we need to get it translated.
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It's my mother's birthday next week. Oh. Shall we get some flowers delivered? Good idea.
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What time is it? It's time you got that watch repaired. Three o'clock.
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Did you spot them all? Let's review. Let's get a pizza delivered. Love it! Good idea.
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We're having some work done on our heating
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system. I think I'll take him to the pet store and
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have him washed. I know, we have to get it serviced. Yeah.
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Then we need to get it translated. Oh. Shall we get some flowers delivered?
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It's time you got that watch repaired. There are two ways to clean your kitchen floor.
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One is to clean it yourself. And the other is to have it cleaned for you.
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You missed a bit.
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