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Lucas21c Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

'have' vs 'make'

Could you tell me what the difference is between the following sentences? Thank you in advance.

I had the house painted. - I made the house painted.
  

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Only the first sentence is correct.

  • Only the first sentence is correct.
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Only the first sentence is correct.
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Could you tell me why the second one sounds awkward?
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lucas21cCould you tell me why the second one sounds awkward?
The second sentence is not awkward. It is not correct.
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Then, could you tell me why it is incorrect?
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Can you tell me how you can make the house painted?
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Actually, I could barely get the difference between "have" and "make" in the above sentence. As causative verbs, both of them seem to me that they mean 'to cause someone or something to be a particular thing' or 'force something/someone to do it'. For example, "I will have my car repaired" or "You have to speak up to make yourself heard."
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I had Bob paint my house would mean I made an arrangement with Bob which resulted in him painting my house for me (Perhaps Bob is a painter and I paid him to paint my house).
I made Bob paint my house would mean I forced Bob to paint my house (Perhaps I told Bob that if he didn't paint my house I'd tell his wife what he was really doing when he went on that "busines
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Then, why "I made the house painted'" is incorrect? Is it impossible to mean that I forcibly had the house painted?
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lucas21cThen, why "I made the house painted'" is incorrect? Is it impossible to mean that I forcibly had the house painted?
The form I had the house painted can stand by itself, or you can say I had the house painted by Bob, or I had Bob paint the house. The I made.... form requires that you specify the p
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lucas21cThen, could you tell me why it is incorrect?
Because It has no clear and or natural-sounding meaning.

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