Timeline for What does the structure "have something do something" mean?
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| Jun 21 at 20:03 | comment | added | Andy Bonner | Note: I don't know the source, but this sounds like something that would be spoken. If I wrote this for any purpose that required thinking carefully and editing, I would probably reword, like "... and the picture would instantly appear." | |
| Jun 20 at 2:50 | comment | added | An IELTS Learner | Yeah I did consider the fact that they might be the same case but since I interpreted have as ask, I was a bit rigid and thought "ask something to do something" might be wrong. But "cause something to do something" sounds much better. | |
| Jun 20 at 2:46 | vote | accept | An IELTS Learner | ||
| Jun 19 at 17:57 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | You say I know the structure "have somebody do something" means "to ask somebody to do something for you". But it's basically the same usage in both cases. Just think of "have somebody do something" as "cause somebody to do something", then for the new context, it's "...focus on a frame for a few seconds and cause the picture to instantly appear". | |
| Jun 19 at 14:41 | answer | added | Hiten Style | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 19 at 14:20 | answer | added | Colin Fine | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 19 at 14:14 | history | asked | An IELTS Learner | CC BY-SA 4.0 |