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Markvanderploeg Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Causative... Positive and Negative

My first question is about the 'causative'...

If I take this sentence: 'I have my car repaired', then, according to me, these are the tenses...

Present
I have my car repaired
I am having my car repaired
I have had my car repaired
I have been having my car repaired (????)

Past
I had my car repaired
I was having my car repaired
I had had my car repaired
I had been having my car repaired (????)

Future
I will have my car repaired
I will be having my car repaired
I will have had my car repaired
I will have been having my car repaired (????)

Questions:

1. Is this list OK?

2. What are the negatives of this list?

Present
I don't have my car repaired?
I am not having my car repaired?
I have not had my car repaired?
I have not been having my car repaired (????)

Past
I hadn't had my car repaired
I wasn't having my car repaired?
I hadn't had my car repaired?
I hadn't been having my car repaired (????)

Future
I will not have my car repaired?
I will not be having my car repaired?
I will not have had my car repaired?
I will not have been having my car repaired (????)

Especially the perfect continuous tenses look and sound strange to me...

Thanks in advance...
  

Top answer

I hadn't had my car repaired? You have the same tense twice. The first should of course be I didn't have my car repaired.

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  • I hadn't had my car repaired?
  • You have the same tense twice.
  • The first should of course be I didn't have my car repaired.
  • You have a good understanding of English tenses.
  • Some people might prefer to put other labels on some of them, but that is unimportant.
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markvanderploegI hadn't had my car repairedI wasn't having my car repaired?I hadn't had my car repaired?
You have the same tense twice. The first should of course be I didn't have my car repaired.

You have a good understanding of English tenses. Some people might prefer to
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Oops, thank you! I will adjust my mistake...
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markvanderploegEspecially the perfect continuous tenses look and sound strange to me..
I am echoing CB's comments. Just a note on the " according to me" which is a wrong phrase to use if you were trying to say" Based on my understanding", or "To my knowledge". However, you may use "according" this way:
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