GET | HAVE + object + past participle – English Grammar Profiler
Here’s an example of someone or something causing something to happen to you while you are passive:
All I can say is,
get ready to have your mind blown.
listen
‘Proactive’ means ‘taking action by causing change and not only reacting to change when it happens.’ In this post related to causative verbs, we look at two different resources.
In the English Grammar Profile (EGP), B2 point 30 in PASSIVES is defined as:
have + object + -ed to talk about something where the speaker is in a pro-active or a passive role.
This is slightly similar to Pearson’s GSE 56 B1+ defined:
We can follow the pattern in the examples in the EGP as:
_vh _a _n _vvn
When we look in iWeb corpus for this pattern, we realise most results do not match our definition. They have been put to the right. Some are idiomatic too.
1 HAVE THEIR WORK CUT 1600 2 HAS THE MEANING GIVEN 1564
3 HAVE YOUR HEART SET 1433
HAVE THEIR VOICES HEARD
5 HAS HIS SIGHTS SET 867 6 HAS HIS WORK CUT 704
7 HAS A FEATURE CALLED 701
8 HAS THEIR GENDER REPORTED 694
9 HAVE THEIR PICTURE TAKEN 679
10 HAVE THE SKILLS NEEDED 627 11 HAVE MY FINGERS CROSSED 578 12 HAVE THEIR SIGHTS SET 565 13 HAD A SON NAMED 547
14 HAVE HIS WORK CUT 546
15 HAVE THEIR PHOTO TAKEN 541
16 HAD MY HEART SET 512
17 HAVE YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED 506 18 HAVE YOUR PHOTO TAKEN 505
19 HAVE YOUR PICTURE TAKEN 483
20 HAS ITS SIGHTS SET 475 21 HAS THE MEANING SET 472 22 HAVE YOUR WORK CUT 469 23 HAVE THE SKILL SET 453 24 HAVE A CONDITION CALLED 445 25 HAS HER SIGHTS SET 443
26 HAVE THE MEANINGS GIVEN 442
27 HAS THE TIME GONE 415
28 HAVE YOUR MIND BLOWN 402
29 HAS ITS WORK CUT 382 30 HAVE THE SKILLS REQUIRED 373 31 HAS THE MEANING ASSIGNED 357 32 HAD THEIR WORK CUT 344 33 HAS A PROGRAM CALLED 342
34 HAVE OUR WORK CUT 335
HAVE THE APP INSTALLED
36 HAVE THE MEANING GIVEN 325 37 HAS THE MEANING ASCRIBED 319
38 HAS THE SKILL SET 319
39 HAVE THEIR VOICE HEARD 307
40 HAD A DAUGHTER NAMED 297 41 HAVE A JOB LINED 287
42 HAVE A PROGRAM CALLED 286
43 HAVE YOUR VOICE HEARD 281
44 HAD MY GALLBLADDER REMOVED 278
45 HAVE THE MEANINGS ASCRIBED 278 46 HAVE A FILE CALLED 276 47 HAS YOUR LIFE CHANGED 271 48 HAVE A QUESTION RELATED 261 49 HAS A WELL ESTABLISHED 259 50 HAS HIS EYES SET 253 51 HAD HIS WORK CUT 251
52 HAVE A FEATURE CALLED 250
53 HAVE THEIR QUESTIONS ANSWERED 249
54 HAVE THE TOOLS NEEDED 247
55 HAVE THEIR PICTURES TAKEN 246
56 HAVE A PHOTO TAKEN 245
57 HAVE A TRIP PLANNED 230
58 HAS A SON NAMED 226 59 HAVE THE INFORMATION NEEDED 223 60 HAVE A WELL DEFINED 222 61 HAS A YEAR LEFT 221
62 HAVE A LOT LEFT 219
63 HAVE THEIR PHOTOS TAKEN 217
64 HAVE A SON NAMED 216
65 HAD NO IDEA EXISTED 212
66 HAVE OUR FINGERS CROSSED 210 67 HAVE THE RESOURCES NEEDED 209 68 HAS HIS HEART SET 206
69 HAS A DAUGHTER NAMED 205
70 HAVE THEIR NEEDS MET 203
71 HAVE YOUR ORDER DELIVERED 202
72 HAVING THEIR PICTURE TAKEN 200