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Bmojtaba Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

causative form

What's the exact structure & meaning of following sentense?

'I got it all planned out'

It means i gave it to someboday to plan it out for me completely? or i planned it out myself completely?

And is it a causitive form?
  

Top answer

Got is used so casually that it is sometimes difficult to tell: I got my hair cut (definitely causative). But in this case it could be either causative or an expression of success. To be sure it's a causative construction, have/has/had is the better verb to use.

— Philip

  • Got is used so casually that it is sometimes difficult to tell: I got my hair cut (definitely causative).
  • But in this case it could be either causative or an expression of success.
  • To be sure it's a causative construction, have/has/had is the better verb to use.
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Got is used so casually that it is sometimes difficult to tell: I got my hair cut (definitely causative). But in this case it could be either causative or an expression of success. To be sure it's a causative construction, have/has/had is the better verb to use.
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so what do you think about the meaning of the above sentence??? it means i did it myself or gave it someone else to do it for me????
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bmojtabaso what do you think about the meaning of the above sentence??? it means i did it myself or gave it someone else to do it for me????
Sorry. I forgot to mention that I'm sure it's the speaker who did the action, not someone else.
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thank you....what about this one??

' I got that roof reserved' is it possible to say it's definetly a causative form???
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Not "definitely". Furthermore, I just don't understand the sentence to begin with. Do we reserve roofs?
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I didn't understand what you mean exactly...but the above sentence is about a person who reserved a roof in somewhere for himself and exactly at the same time he saw someone else was getting up to the roof and he told : I got that roof reserved'
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I think in this case it means I have that roof reserved in my name, and the speaker probably, but not necessariy, reserved it himself. You see, the problem is the casual word get/got that we often use to mean the simpe verb have. [ It's even worse when people say "I've got" as in "have to go".
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thank you also i found this post from Yokohama:

Mister Micawber:

That is a different meaning for 'get'. There are two:

I got my car fixed = I employed/asked/etc someone to fix my car.
I got my car fixed = I finished fixing my car.
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I don't think the second example is correct. I don't know anyone who would use got in the sense of having repaired the car themselves.
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Anonymous I don't know anyone who would use got in the sense of having repaired the car themselves.
It seems natural enough to me - in the right context.
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