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Bamtori Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

have or get

"Usually when you have a boob job, you get these two big blobs in the middle of nowhere,..."

Teachers,

After all this time of learning English, I'm still having trouble with when to use "have" and not "get" and vice versa.

Please help~
  

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" Teachers, After all this time of learning English, I'm still having trouble with when to use "have" and not "get" and vice versa. Please help~ In the first clause, you can use either. Formally, we use "have" in such situation when we arrange to have something done to or for us.

— Milky

  • " Teachers, After all this time of learning English, I'm still having trouble with when to use "have" and not "get" and vice versa.
  • Please help~ In the first clause, you can use either.
  • Formally, we use "have" in such situation when we arrange to have something done to or for us.
  • Informally, we can use "get".
  • The second clause talks about the result and we can use "get" or expressions such as "end with" or "end up with".
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Bamtori
"Usually when you have a **** job, you get these two big blobs in the middle of nowhere,..."

Teachers,

After all this time of learning English, I'm still having trouble with when to use "have" and not "get" and vice versa.

Please help~

In t
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Milky
Bamtori
"Usually when you have a **** job, you get these two big blobs in the middle of nowhere,..."

Teachers,

After all this time of learning English, I'm still having trouble with when to use "have" and not "get" and vice versa.

Please he
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RishonlyI [am] having/getting my hair cut.

She [is] having/getting the house painted next week.

These sentences are missing "am" and "is", respectively.

Wow, thanks for being so awake there, Rish. It's early here and I'm still asleep.
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Oh, that's fine Milky, and it happens to all of us, rarely .Emotion: smile
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