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Ana poland Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

"used to have made" vs "used to make"

Hi, what's the difference between "used to have made" and "used to make"?
  

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ana poland "used to have made" I cannot think of a situation in which I would use this verb phrase. ana poland "used to make"? He used to make pancakes every Sunday.

  • ana poland "used to have made" I cannot think of a situation in which I would use this verb phrase.
  • ana poland "used to make"?
  • He used to make pancakes every Sunday.
  • Having an advanced degree used to make a big difference in landing a job.
  • The factory used to make luxury cars, now it just makes compact models.
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ana poland "used to have made"
I cannot think of a situation in which I would use this verb phrase.
ana poland"used to make"?
He used to make pancakes every Sunday.
Having an advanced degree used to make a big difference in landing a job.
The factory used to make luxury cars, now it just makes c
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I've heard it on a TV show. Two women talk about soup: "Apparently something his mother used to have made for him when he was a little boy"
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I have tried to think of a natural 'used to have + third form (past participle)' for a long time, but have not been able to come up with a natural one.

'She used to have made dinner before I got home' is in theory grammatically correct, but we simply don't say it, preferring 'She used to make dinner before I got home'. There are no citations for 'used to have + third form (past participle
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ana polandI've heard it on a TV show. Two women talk about soup: "Apparently something his mother used to have made for him when he was a little boy"
That strikes me as meaning 'something his mother had made/prepared/ready for him'.
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ok, thank you. The character saying this is a 60+ woman from the upper class so maybe this phrasing was supposed to reflect that in some way.
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I get it now. She didn't make it herself, she had someone else do this.
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ana polandI get it now. She didn't make it herself, she had someone else do this.
That makes sense - it is the causative use of make. The pattern normally has the object before "make" like this:

Apparently his mother used to have this soup made for him when he was a little boy.

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