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10.3 Passive Causative: Have Something Done

Have + Object + Past Participle
| had my watch repaired last week.

Did you have the battery changed?

1. Use passive causatives with have to talk We had the roof fixed last year.
about services that we have someone (Someone else fixed the roof.)
else do for us.

2. The subject of a sentence with a passive | had the kitchen painted by HMS Painters.
causative did not perform the action. The (HMS Painters painted the kitchen.)
action was done by someone else.

3. Be careful! The form of the verb have I'm having the kitchen painted this week.
changes with different tenses and modal | have the kitchen painted every two years.
verbs. | haven't had the kifchen painted recently.
I'm going to have the kitchen painted soon.
Should we have the kitchen painted?

4. Be careful! The passive causative (have | never have the house cleaned.
something done) looks similar to the | have never cleaned the house.
present perfect (have done something).
but the meanings are very different.

4 Complete the paragraph about ancient Egypt. Use the correct form of have and the words
in parentheses.

had many things done
The pharaohs were very powerful rulers, and they (1)
(many things / do) in their kingdoms to demonstrate their power. For example, they
2) (their portraits / paint). They also

(3) (their images / put) on coins. In addition, the

pharaohs (4) (arge tombs / build) for themselves.
Women of high status (5) (heads / shave). They
wore wigs instead of their own hair, and they 6)

(the wigs / dye) different colors: black, blond, gold, blue, or green.

The Egyptians believed in life after death, so they (7)
(their bodies / preserve) for the next life in a process called mummification. Because

they believed that they would need many of their possessions in the afterlife, they
(8) (their belongings / place) near

them in their tombs. These belongings included weapons, jewelry, food and drink,
and cosmetics. They also (9) (special

words / write) on their coffins to protect them from harm after death. Some pharoahs even

(10) (their pets / bury) with them.

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