Learn more about the passive voice, and how to use have and get when talking about actions that were performed for you or to you, in this advanced grammar lesson.
Skill Builders: Grammar – Causative V erbs (Passive)Upper-Intermediate GRAMMAR EXPLANA TION What are passive causative verbs?We use this structure to talk about having something done by another person/thing. Take a look at the following example:Peter had his house repaired after the tornado last...
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However, when the 'object' precedes all the verbs, this is either a 'pseudo‑passive' (sometimes also known as a 'middle construc‑ tion' in studies on Mandarin, e.g., Xiong 2018), with the 'object' becoming the 'subject' and 'subject' suppressed, or 'object fronting' (e.g., ...