UNIT 3 GETTING THINGS DONE

 GRAMMAR 1

THE CAUSATIVE  

GET- HAVE

Use the causative to express the idea that one person persuades or ¨causes¨ another person to do someting. 

use get + an object and an infinitive.

I´ll get the waiter to correct the check

They got him to pay for dinner 

Did she get her friends to give money to the school

EXAMPLES:

I will get jorge to buy me a pizza 

I will have my brother to fix my bedroom 

I will get my friend to come to my house

I will have my mother to make me lunch

I will get my nephew to give me a kiss

PASSIVE CAUSATIVE

The easiest way to understand the this is through talking the same sentence and transforming to each of the 3 grammar forms.

PRESENT PARTICIPLE 

take

speak 

run

eat

fix

PAST

tok

spoke

ran

ate

fixe