 | Look at these examples: - 'The family had their portraits painted by a professional artist.'
- 'We’ve just had double-glazing fitted and the house is so much warmer now.'
- 'It’s not surprising that you break down all the time, you never have your car serviced.'
- 'When are you going to have your bad tooth taken out?'
- 'Joanna loves having her photograph taken, but David hates it.'
As you can see from the above illustrations, Sharik, the causative can be used with a wide variety of different tenses and constructions, e.g. past simple, present perfect, present simple, future reference, 'like/dislike/love/hate' + -ing and so on. However, I don’t think it would be used so often with the past perfect, although the example given below sounds quite natural: - 'By the time my mother arrived I had had my ears pierced and there was nothing she could do about it.'
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