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Hans51 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Questions about such as and get O do

Also, companies are encouraged to manufacture products with easily replaceable parts so that customers can get their broken electronic devices repaired and extend their life cycles.


Tasha Tudor was an American author and illustrator of children’ books. She illustrated such books as Mother Goose, The Secret Garden, The Little Princess, and Little Women.


I have seen those sentences in a book and I have learned that get objects -ed and to do are correct patterns like 'get it done' and 'get the car to start' and then, in the sentence 'to extend' is a correct pattern, isn't it?

And is there a meaning difference between such books as Mother Goose... and books such as Mother Goose...?

What do you native English speakers think?

Thank you so much as usual in advance.
  

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Hans51 Also, companies are encouraged to manufacture products with easily replaceable parts so that customers can get their broken electronic devices repaired and extend their life cycles. You haven't highlighted the connected words. "get" links with "repaired" links in the phrase "get (something) repaired"; "broken" is a separate adjective and "extend" is a separate verb.

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  • Hans51 Also, companies are encouraged to manufacture products with easily replaceable parts so that customers can get their broken electronic devices repaired and extend their life cycles.
  • You haven't highlighted the connected words.
  • "get" links with "repaired" links in the phrase "get (something) repaired"; "broken" is a separate adjective and "extend" is a separate verb.
  • "to extend" would not fit in the sentence.
  • "get their broken electronic devices to extend their life cycles" is grammatical, but feels a bit odd, as if the electronic devices have some kind of will.
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Hans51Also, companies are encouraged to manufacture products with easily replaceable parts so that customers can get their broken electronic devices repaired and extend their life cycles.
You haven't highlighted the connected words. "get" links with "repaired" links in the phrase "get (something) repaired"; "broken" is a separate adjective and "extend" is a se
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Hans51Also, companies are encouraged to manufacture products with easily replaceable parts so that customers can get their broken electronic devices repaired and extend their life cycles.
The sentence is grammatical but a good example of obfuscation. I would make two suggestions for improvement.

Also, companies are encouraged to manufacture product
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AlpheccaStars ...so that customers can get their broken electronic devices repaired, thus extending their useful lives.
AStars, a question crossed my mind -- my apologies if I sound out of order.

Could the underlined part 'their useful lives' be connected to the customers in any way? I mean:

-- thus extendi
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Mr. TomCould the underlined part 'their useful lives' be connected to the customers in any way? I mean:-- thus extending their (customers') valuable lives.
No.
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GPYextend" is a separate verb. "to extend" would not fit in the sentence.
Opps! I made a mistake, and 'repaired' should be bold.

And I have a question, if extend is a separate verb, the verb get does not affect the verb extend?

And then which verb affects the verb extend? Or which one is a subject of ex
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Hans51And I have a question, if extend is a separate verb, the verb get does not affect the verb extend?
Right, it does not. The verb phrases are "can get" and "can extend."

Also, companies are encouraged to manufacture products with easily replaceable parts so that customers can [get their broken electronic devices repaired] and (can) extend their
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