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Published: 11.09.2021.
Language: English
Level: College/University
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
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Have/get sth done
A service is performed for us
To describe something unfortunate
Get is more likely used instead of have when:
Feeling that sth must be done;
The American public must get involed, too.
Eventually managing to do sth;
I eventually got the chair fixed.
In orders and imperatives;
Get your hands washed!
Shoud not be used in present perfect passive

The passive with get
Instead of be;
Informal;
Used to express something that happend by accident or unexpectedly;
In negatives and questions in the present simple and past simple – a form of do;
e.g.  How did the big dog get out?
In expressions: get dressed/changed, get washed, get engaged/married/divorced, get started, get lost.

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