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Is it wrong to use specific verbs instead "have"?
Your book is showing you how many people actually speak.
Especially in spoken English, we find that people will use a general verb like "have" even when a more specific one is possible. This is ...
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How to use verb "have" as a subjunctive?
I recommend (that) he have his teeth examined by a dentist.
This subjunctive complement for recommend is a clause, not an object as you have in your examples with him.
I recommend that he take ...
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Is it correct to say "are you logged in" or "have you logged in"?
Both are correct - it ultimately depends on the question that you wish to ask.
If you were to ask:
Are you logged in?
Then you are asking whether the user is currently logged into a particular ...
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Have something be done
You're right that the be is optional here: the meaning is slightly different, but only very slightly - a difference of focus.
Without be, even though it is not grammatially active, it nevertheless ...
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“have someone V/Ving” in American English
Both patterns are possible in AmE, though they mean slightly different things and therefore aren’t completely exchangeable. Specifically, it mirrors the difference between the past and the past ...
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We usually have my mother (to) stay over Christmas
"Have someone to stay" is an idiomatic way (in British English at least) of saying you received a guest, usually overnight. In this usage, "have" means to possess - you have a ...
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'You had Konklin [name] killed'. What does it mean?
This structure is called passive causative.
The form is: ["have/get" + object + past participle]
The meaning is to cause or arrange for someone else to do something, and not do it yourself.
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"I have bought it" versus "I have it bought"
The two sentences have completely different meanings and structures.
The first sentence is the present perfect and means I bought something in the past, and this purchase has a present result, likely ...
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Difference between 'had something done' and 'got something done' as causative verb
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The use of the past participle after the object of the causative verb HAVE in your example is fine, and both examples are correct.
The causative verbs got and had here have similar meanings, but ...
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can 'I have it uploaded' and I've uploaded it' be interchangeable?
There are some contexts where I have it uploaded and I've uploaded it carry the same (relevant) information, so you could say they're "interchangeable" in those specific contexts. For example, suppose ...
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Best way to say the car was washed (exam question)
Both A) and C) are grammatically correct, however, they have slightly different meanings.
had had is the past perfect of have
A simple version of the sentence without the past perfect:
Joshua had ...
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I'll have it upstairs
This is a causative "have". That what's done is "taken" is implied by the context. He'll arrange for it to be upstairs. Probably, he'll get someone else to take it up that quickly, although he might ...
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How to use verb "have" as a subjunctive?
The verb recommend is used like this in your context:
I recommend [advise] he have his teeth looked at by a dentist.
I recommend [advise] he leave now.
Recommend is never followed by an indirect ...
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Is it wrong to use specific verbs instead "have"?
Your question asks if it is wrong to use more specific verbs rather than 'have'. The answer is no, it isn't wrong, but in many cases it is not natural sounding. English has many verbs which can be ...
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"question tag after causative verb in the clause"
Normal usage:
"She had some repairs done, did she not?"
It is, in this form, a proper sentence and is a question.
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"Have someone + adj" means "make someone + adj?"
Yes, that usage overlaps with "make someone" +adj. Here is a dictionary definition that includes that meaning:
Oxford Lexico "have" 2.4
2.4 Cause (someone or something) to be in a particular state ...
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I'll have him call you vs I'll get him to call you
I'll have him call you.
suggests that the speaker is i a position to give orders to "him". In contrast
I'll get him to call you.
might suggest more persuasion than an order, but this ...
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"we only have 67 percent of the population vaccinated"
The structure is [ "have" + object + modifier ]. It roughly means, "We have a situation where X is Y", and it usually has a negative meaning. The modifier can be just about ...
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She had her report done. (who did the report?)
Not possible to say.
This might be an example of a causative, implying that she caused someone else to do the report:
She had her report done for her by her sister, but the teacher spotted the change ...
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got us to lose the match
The first of OP's examples...
1: The referee made us lose the match by disallowing two of the goals we scored
...will occasionally be used by some speakers seeking to avoid the relatively "...
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"Have a lot of people ask me" — Why causative here?
Your first sentence simply means that
I come across a lot of people who ask me whether it's possible to achieve their goals.
Or
There are a lot of people who ask me whether it's possible to achieve ...
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"Have a lot of people ask me" — Why causative here?
As we all know
I bet more than 95% of adults stopped on the street in native English-speaking countries would say no to the question "do you know about causatives in English grammar?".
why ...
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Have + object + past participle vs Have + object + bare infinitive
There's a confusion of types of sentences here.
There's also additional confusion because come is an irregular verb, and its past participle is not came. Its past participle is the same as its bare ...
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"question tag after causative verb in the clause"
She had some repairs done, had she not?
The 'rule' is this:
If the 'anchor' predicator is an auxiliary, select the same auxiliary, otherwise select "do".
Here, the anchor predicator "had" is not an ...
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Causative verb usage with must
Yes you can, although this grammar has a fairly specific usage. Ordinarily it expresses a perceived reason for something, for example:
These documents must have been written by you, (because ...)
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Have causative verb get causative verb
"I wanted to have you sit on the chair"
and
"I wanted to get you to sit on the chair"
are for all intents and purposes identical in meaning, and both are grammatically correct. Both are in ...
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Causative verb usage in sentence
The use of "having had" may be correct. However the sentence contains multiple other errors. I think you meant something like
Having had him sit on a chair, he started to tell a story.
This would ...
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Causative have: does the subject always initiate the actions?
Your problem is that "have" has many meanings. See
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/have
If you look at that entry, you will see that your first example is meaning 7a in the cited ...
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What is the meaning of the word "have" in this context?
As has been said, this is the "causative have". It is more common in US English than British - the entry in the (US) Merriam-Webster has it:
"7 a : to cause or command to do something
—used with ...
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What is the meaning of the word "have" in this context?
To have somebody do something (here: 'have him or her color the quilt') means to cause/get somebody to do something (e. g. to ask, to suggest - in context with a child; to persuade, to force etc. - in ...
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