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Messier42 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
How are they different?
I had the pump being damaged.
I saw the pump being damaged.
I found we had water dripping out of the pipe.
We saw the water dripping out of the pipe.
I had the machine broken down
I saw the machine break down.
How are they different?
Thank you!
I saw the pump being damaged.
I found we had water dripping out of the pipe.
We saw the water dripping out of the pipe.
I had the machine broken down
I saw the machine break down.
How are they different?
Thank you!
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I had the pump being damaged. All of your had' examples are hard to interpret. )?
- I had the pump being damaged.
- All of your had' examples are hard to interpret.
- )?
- I saw the pump being damaged.
- I found we had water dripping out of the pipe.
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I had the pump being damaged.All of your had' examples are hard to interpret. Do you mean 'I had' in the sense of 'I possessed' or in the sense of 'I caused something to happen' (eg I had the car washed.)?
I saw the pump being damaged.
I found we had water dripping out of the pipe. I discovered the fact. Maybe I saw it
I saw the pump being damaged.
I found we had water dripping out of the pipe. I discovered the fact. Maybe I saw it
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Thank you for reply.
From my grammar book, 'have' in the contexts below means experiencing
I had a very strange thing happen to me when I was fourteen.
I looked up and found we had water dripping through the ceilling.
We had our roof blown off in the storm.
Don't they have the meaning of experience?
So, I tried to apply this to the sentence I made up.
From my grammar book, 'have' in the contexts below means experiencing
I had a very strange thing happen to me when I was fourteen.
I looked up and found we had water dripping through the ceilling.
We had our roof blown off in the storm.
Don't they have the meaning of experience?
So, I tried to apply this to the sentence I made up.
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Hi,
Yes, 'have' can have that meaning. In fact, it is a word that has a lot of meanings, as your dictionary will show you.
Some of them are more common than others. Often some context is needed to clarify what the intended meaning is.
Let's
Yes, 'have' can have that meaning. In fact, it is a word that has a lot of meanings, as your dictionary will show you.
Some of them are more common than others. Often some context is needed to clarify what the intended meaning is.
Let's
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Hi
A : "Hey, I have the water pipe dripping, I need the spanner to tighten the connection, would you pass me that?"
B : "Oh, That's terrible! Here you are."
A: "I had water dripped out of the water pipe this morning"
C : "That must have been so terrible!"
Did I use "have" correctly?
Thank you!
A : "Hey, I have the water pipe dripping, I need the spanner to tighten the connection, would you pass me that?"
B : "Oh, That's terrible! Here you are."
A: "I had water dripped out of the water pipe this morning"
C : "That must have been so terrible!"
Did I use "have" correctly?
Thank you!
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A : "Hey, I have the water pipe dripping, I need the spanner to tighten the connection, would you pass me that?"
B : "Oh, That's terrible! Here you are."
A: "I had water dripping out of the water pipe this morning"
C : "That must have been so terrible!"
Did I use "have" correctly? Yes
B : "Oh, That's terrible! Here you are."
A: "I had water dripping out of the water pipe this morning"
C : "That must have been so terrible!"
Did I use "have" correctly? Yes
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In a situation that a part had already been broken in the past,
When I reached the customer site, I had the part broken down.So, I had to find a workaround. Is this OK to say about the experience happened in the past?
Thank you!
When I reached the customer site, I had the part broken down.So, I had to find a workaround. Is this OK to say about the experience happened in the past?
Thank you!
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No, it's very hard to make any sense of that.
The natural thing to say is eg The machine had broken down..
It's usually the whole thing rather than the part that we describe as 'broken down'.
Clive
The natural thing to say is eg The machine had broken down..
It's usually the whole thing rather than the part that we describe as 'broken down'.
Clive
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