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Chan-Seung Lee
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 Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 7:42 pm Post subject: have |
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| I had my shoes shined for the interview. |
Which one does the quote mean
'I had my shoes shined for the interview by me.' or
'I had my shoes shined for the interview by someone.' ?
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CP
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 7:43 am Post subject: |
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He / She had the shoes shined by someone else. Otherwise, it would be, "I shined my shoes for the interview."
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Christine123
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Location: Indiana
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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The second one is correct. Whenever you have a sentence like this:
Noun/Pronoun +to have (or any form of the verb) + possessive noun/pronoun +verb
and that last verb is some sort of service, it means that someone else performed the action of that verb. |
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