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Miss Elaine Eos (Misc@*your-shoes*PlayNaked.com) 2005/03/03 23:27

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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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