Have something done – Exercise 372

Drag each element from the list below to the right gap.

At a nail bar, you

At a watch repair, you

At an optician's, you

With a postal service, you

With a robotic vacuum cleaner, you

have your floors cleaned

have letters delivered

have your glasses made

have your nails polished

have your watch battery replaced

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Have something done — summary

To have/get something done means we don't do the job ourselves but we ask someone to do it for us.

Formation: have/get + object + past participle

You can use any tense or use "have"/"get" with a modal verb.

Examples

Theresa had her hair cut.

John is going to have his car serviced.

How often do you have your apartment cleaned?

I've just had this jacket cleaned, and now it's dirty again.

You should have this socket repaired at last.