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Farassoo Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

use of both get and have in a sentence

Hello.
This is a dialog from my book ILI intermediate3 .

Andy: I'm going downtown. Can I get you anything while I'm out?
Bob: Please have this prescription filled for me.
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Bob: Please drop off this film at a camera shop.

I should write some questions about this dialog. Are these correct?
Q-What did Bob get Andy do for him?
A- He got him have his prescription filled and drop off his film at a camera shop.
  

Top answer

We don't know that Andy did these things. We know only that Bob wanted him to do them.

— Fivejedjon

  • We don't know that Andy did these things.
  • We know only that Bob wanted him to do them.
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We don't know that Andy did these things. We know only that Bob wanted him to do them.
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At the end of the dialog Andy said ok.
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We still don't know that he actually did them.
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fivejedjonWe still don't know that he actually did them.
Which of these words do you not understand?
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farassooAt the end of the dialog Andy said ok.
Sure Andy agreed to do these things. But we still have no evidence from the dialog that he actually did them.
He might have forgotten to do them, or had a heart attack and died on the way.

Q-What did Bob ask Andy to do for him?
A- Bob asked Andy to fill hi
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farassooI should am supposed to write some questions about this dialog. Are these correct?
These? There is only one question.

What did Bob ask Andy to do for him?

Answer: He asked
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Thank you. I want to know if you use have/get/make in the question too. Apparently the question that I wrote is wrong.
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Thank you for correcting and answering my question.
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I'm sorry. I don't understand why it's important that we don't know whether Andy actually did them.
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