HAVE SOMETHING DONE

The construction is used to say that we arrange for someone else to do something for us. It means заказать, нанять, пригласить кого-либо сделать что-либо. The Past Participle {done/repaired/cleaned, etc.) comes after the object.

Have + object + Past Participle

I have my coat cleaned every month.

We had the roof repaired yesterday.

They are having the house painted at the moment.

How often do you have your car serviced?

She has just had her car cleaned.

Sometimes the model is used to say that something (often something not nice) happened to someone.

He had all his money stolen. У него украли все его деньги.

George had his nose broken in a fight. Джорджу разбили нос в драке.

EXERCISES

Answer the questions using the model

Model: Did Ann make the dress yourself?

No, she had it made.

a) Did you cut your hair yourself?

b) Did they paint the garage themselves?

c) Did Jim cut that tree himself?

d) Did you repair the car yourself?

e) Do you clean your house yourself?

Complete the situation using to have smth done

a) Sue is at the hairdresser's at the moment. She ...

b) Ann's watch had been broken, she took it to a jeweller's. Now it is working Ann ....

c) What are the workmen doing in your garden? Oh, I ....

d) Can I seethe holiday photographs you took? I'm afraid not, I ....

Translate into English using the pattern to have smth done

Model: 1) Я делаю прическу в парикмахерской каждую пятницу.

I have my hair done every Friday.

2) Здесь вам почистят пальто за одни сутки.

Here you can have your coat cleaned overnight.

1. Вам надо отгладить и почистить костюм. 2. Мне надо сфотографироваться. 3. Здесь можно отдать в чистку плащ? 4. Вам не починят кран до понедельника. 5. Где вам шьют? 6. Где вам шили это платье? 7. У него украли документы в прошлом году. 8. Ей выкрасили кухню в светло-зеленый цвет. 9. Она сшила себе новое пальто. 10. Мне нужно сделать прическу.

THE ABSOLUTE PARTICIPIAL CONSTRUCTION

It is a construction in which the participle has the "subject" of its own. This "subject" is not the subject of the sentence.

The letter having been written, he went out to post it.

Письмо было написано, и он пошел на почту отправить его.

The room being dark, I couldn't see him.

Так как в комнате было темно, я не видел его. Though formally independent of the sentence the absolute construction is a logical adverbial modifier of time, cause, condition and is rendered in Russian by means of an adverbial clause (так как; хотя; когда; после того; как....).

EXERCISES