In article <d046b1$2oq$1@nemesis.news.tpi.pl>,
"Jacek Bukowicki" <j_bukowicki@parp.gov.pl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What difference may there be between:
>
> "HAVE sb DO sth" and "HAVE sb DOING sth" ?
>
> thanks in advance for any suggestions
> jacek
By "sb", do you mean "subject"? Then "sth" would be... "something"?
"Have Fred do the dishes" means "arrange for Fred to do [wash] the
dishes." It's similar to "Tell Fred to do the dishes."
I can't think of any sentence of the form "have _?_ doing _?_." The
other form you may mean is "has Fred done the dishes?" This is an
interrogative asking whether or not Fred has done the task mentioned.
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