Talking about having something done in English
TRANSCRIPT Hi. I m Rebecca from engVid. In this lesson, I ll show you an advanced way to improve your English. Let me start by asking you a few questions. Do you cut your own hair Do you repair your own car Do you fix your roof If you re like most people, you probably do not do those things by yourself; you have someone else do those things for you. Right So in English, when you have someone else perform an action for you, we express that in a different way, and that s what you re going to learn in this lesson. Okay Let s have a look at the board. Okay, so let s say that you do something by yourself. Okay Then you would say, for example: I paint the house every That s if you do it by yourself. If In the past, we would say: I painted the house last In the future, you would say: I will paint the house next Right That s when you do the action. That s the normal way in which we construct an En
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