The causative exercises
1. In the following sentences, make suggestions according to the situations given.
Use the causative of the verbs in brackets.
1. This watch has stopped. It's broken. (fix)
You should have this watch fixed.
2. We have got so many books and nowhere to put them. (build new shelves)
You should have new shelves built.
3. I can't carry this heavy shopping bag on my own. (deliver)
You can have this heavy shopping bag delivered.
4. The floor looks dirty and dull. (polish)
Perhaps you could have the floor polished.
5. Sarah's poems are very good. People would love them. (publish)
She could have her poems published.
6. John doesn't like the tiles on the kitchen floor. He would like a different colour. (change)
He should have his tiles on the kitchen floor changed.
2. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of have... or get ... to and a suitable agent
(person who does the action) according to the context. Sometimes, more than one
correct answer is possible.
1. I get the butcher to prepare the meat for me every week. (informal)
2. The teacher had the students clean up the school playground. (formal)
3. The lawyer had the assistant type up the contracts for the meeting.
4. Peter got the photographer to take pictures at his wedding last week.
5. The farm will get people to help with fruit-picking next summer.
6. The boss had the secretary offer him a rise for his hard work.
7. My neighbour is getting her neighbour to/is getting the plumber to fix her leaking tap
at the moment.
8. The city council will have the architects design the new town hall, which will be built in
2022.