CAUSATIVE FORM

The causative form is used when we speak about a professional service which someone has done for us.

• She is having her typewriter repaired.

We make the causative form:

{subject}+{have}+{object}+{past participle}

• I had may hair cut
• She will have her house decorated
• They are having their garden landscaped
• He is going to have his car resprayed

We can use the same pattern to talk about an aften bad experience:

• She had her house burgled
• We had our money stolen
• We had our car vandalized

We can also use get instead of have but this is informal.